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In “Talk,” Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.

In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.

“Taming the Street,” by Diana B. Henriques, and “The Problem of Twelve,” by John Coates, tell the story of America’s powerful and unwieldy financial institutions.

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

“Tell,” by Jonathan Buckley, is a missing-person mystery recounted in fragmentary anecdotes.

In a new history, Ted Genoways explores the dramatic life of an enigmatic figure who revolutionized his country’s spirits industry.

At the age of 80, Sly Stone has finally produced his memoir, and it gives a strong sense of this giant’s voice and sensibility.

Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.

Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail.