In a new book, the journalist Scott Anderson argues that America’s failure to predict and understand the 1979 revolution has hamstrung foreign policy ever since.
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s new novel, “Lake Effect,” is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: “Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence.”
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 C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich in the Italian Alps, one of the last places on Earth where crops still grow.
In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.