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In “Glitter and Concrete,” Elyssa Maxx Goodman traces the emergence of drag in the early 1900s, its descent underground after the Depression and its 1980s renaissance, spurred by club culture.

Hannah Stowe grew up in coastal Wales, dreaming of a life on the ocean. Her memoir, “Move Like Water,” recounts how she pursued her passion.

There are strikes, culture wars, actual wars, and the world is on fire. But there is still culture.

“The Wolves of Eternity” wrestles with conflicting worldviews in a tale of intersecting lives.

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist.

Speaking across linguistic and emotional boundaries, or perhaps not speaking at all, these characters leave the reader to read between the lines.

She saw her family members marched off to their deaths while she went to a forced-labor camp. It took her almost 60 years to begin telling her story.

The fruits of a free-ranging reading week were a fascinating book on China and a political science paper that explains a quirk of far-right politics.

The Utah Republican’s announcement that he would retire coincided with the publication of a forthcoming book based on extensive interviews in which he slammed his party and the Senate.