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A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.

In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a lesser-known Iranian hostage crisis its due.

In his new novel, Roddy Doyle revisits his character Paula Spencer, a woman managing some fraught feelings. Our reviewer had some fraught feelings of her own.

The Supreme Court justice’s memoir is deeply personal and full of hope, and highlights a fairy-tale marriage to her college boyfriend.

Elizabeth Alexander and John Bayley loved their partners to the end.

In “Tell Me Everything,” Bob Burgess deepens his emotional connection with Lucy Barton as he defends a local man accused of killing his mother.

In Mason Coile’s new horror novel, “William,” an intelligent robot begins to lead its feckless creator to terrible places in the name of “freedom.”

William Cope Moyers told the world he had it all figured out after beating his addiction to crack cocaine. But then a dentist gave him an opioid pain killer.

For the justices, selling books remains one of the few ways to earn income outside the court.

“Death at the Sign of the Rook” is the sixth novel in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie mystery series. What keeps her coming back?