In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring power of the Virgin of Fatima.
In “Sparks,” the journalist Ian Johnson chronicles the methods and motivations of the activists trying to preserve a record of the atrocities of the past.
In “Splendid Liberators,” Joe Jackson presents the U.S. wars in Cuba and the Philippines as part of a misguided project to spread freedom across the world.