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In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other.

In his new book, “The Illegals,” Shaun Walker studies the Russian agents who worked deep undercover as Americans for decades.

In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity.

In “The Indispensable Right,” Jonathan Turley argues that the First Amendment has been deeply compromised from the start.

An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.

In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.

In Nora Fussner’s new novel, the jaded producers of “Searching For … the Invisible World” are pulled into a haunted story they initially refuse to believe.

In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left behind.