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In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

Shahnaz Habib’s “irreverent history” takes a lively and sometimes ruthless look at who gets to go where and what gets papered over in their accounts.

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.

In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin.

A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.

Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.

In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.

In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.

In her new book, the writer presents 10 years of her diaries in an unorthodox arrangement.