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The new book by Witold Szablowski features the chefs who were expected to prepare sumptuous meals for Russian leaders — and keep them from being poisoned.

“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.

In “What’s With Baum?,” an anxious, jealous and thrice-married writer finds himself stranded in a culture that wants more “schmaltz,” less “wisdom.”

In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories.

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life.

In “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist’s eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire.

In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right.

The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”

In “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,” Julie Satow celebrates the savvy leaders who made Bonwit, Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor into retail meccas of their moment.