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In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality.

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

New books by Rebecca Turkewitz, Tobi Ogundiran and Paul Tremblay captivate with fresh terrors.

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.

In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

The Polish best seller “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” is like a post-porn fever dream of Eastern European magic realism crossed with a plant-based “Joy of Sex.”

As autoworkers strike across the country, “Hillbilly Highway” and “Black Folk” offer two views of the search for a better life by working-class migrants in the middle of the 20th century.

In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.