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In a new book, the biographer Justine Picardie romps through a century of royal wardrobes.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

Jonathan Raban’s “Father and Son” is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history.

Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.

Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism.

“Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.

In “Feast While You Can,” two women who have long been nemeses rely on each other to face an ancient terror that has re-emerged.

Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.