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Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.

New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power.

“John Lewis” and “Medgar and Myrlie” tell the stories of activists who struggled with when to push and when to compromise and build coalitions.

New books detail the lives of a politicking Roman emperor, people who communicate through touch and a man who helped make the American West into legend.

“Lovers in Auschwitz” and “Cold Crematorium,” two works by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust.

Three new books look at the tensions — left, center, right and further right — in the Democratic and Republican parties.

Four new books look to fauna to get us through tough times.

Two new books bring attention to old discoveries with the potential to cure stubborn ailments and reveal the secrets of biology.

Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.

In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come.