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Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.

In “Empresses of Seventh Avenue,” the fashion writer Nancy MacDonell tells the story of the New York women who created modern style.

A new book by the historian Ian Kumekawa tracks the varied career of a gigantic boat in an era of profound economic change.

Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field’s ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.

In “Endangered Eating,” the food historian Sarah Lohman explores the onetime staples disappearing from our tables.

In “Endgame,” Harry and Meghan’s sympathetic biographer, Omid Scobie, takes on the in-laws — and takes no prisoners.

That is, until war breaks out. “Endling,” by Maria Reva, is an ambitious whirlwind of a novel, set in Ukraine on the brink of disaster.

In the latest novel from the “Essex Serpent” author Sarah Perry, astronomy and religion collide with unrequited romance under gray British skies.

In the latest novel from the “Essex Serpent” author Sarah Perry, astronomy and religion collide with unrequited romance under gray British skies.

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.