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In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.

In “The Waterbearers,” Sasha Bonét weaves her matrilineal history into a larger struggle for survival and self-knowledge.

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.

Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.

From dolphins with Alzheimer’s to cranky traffic judges, writes Clayton Page Aldern, the whole planet is going berserk.

In “The White Ladder,” the British writer Daniel Light explores the heroes, villains and dramas of early mountaineering.

In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.

Details are in Caleb Femi’s new poetry collection, “The Wickedest.”

In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.

Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.