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He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.

In “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography of Perle Mesta, Washington’s colorful, and oft-mocked, “hostess with the mostes’.”

Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict turns violent.

MAGA has turned “the administrative state” into a battle cry.

Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases.

In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.

He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him. He came to believe the phenomenon was real.

Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book “The Truth in the Light.” Here are some of them.

In “The Sinners All Bow,” Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster’s instincts to a 19th-century murder.

The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.