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A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.

In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health crises: AIDS and Covid-19.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.

“On Gaslighting,” by the philosophy professor Kate Abramson, explores the psychological phenomenon behind the hashtags.

In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.

Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day.

In “On the Edge,” the election forecaster argues that the gambler’s mind-set has come to define modern life.

In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.

The U.C.L.A. sociologist Michael Mann seeks to uncover the causes of war across the globe, from the classical era to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.