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In “Selling Sexy,” two veteran fashion journalists examine how Victoria’s Secret fell from grace.

“Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships.

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better.

A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him?

In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.

Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders” runs from 2040 to 2014, showing how a cast of unsettled characters arrived at their current predicament.

A book of photographs by Jimmy Metyko documents a fertile period of surf history.

In her debut novel, Emily Habeck sets up an unusual conundrum for a pair of newlyweds.

In a new memoir, Hanif Kureishi reflects on a life transformed since he lost the use of his arms and legs.

In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.