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Jung Chang’s 1991 memoir, “Wild Swans,” sold millions. Its follow-up delves further into a complex personal and political history.

How a simple catchphrase sums up the president’s theory of executive power.

“It’s my comfort book,” she says of the comic novel about a busted marriage. Her own new thriller is a sequel to “The Last Thing He Told Me.”

“Miracle Children” details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.

The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here’s where to start.

A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.

Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.

In a Pulitzer-winning book, he saw modern America’s origins not so much in one president’s policies as in the sweeping social and technological changes wrought in the years 1815-48.

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.”

The fourth novel in his Morning Star series follows an ambitious young photographer in 1985 London.