Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
By Ben Mezrich
The game’s fighters extend far beyond queens and rooks.
Behold the Bird in Flight
By Terri Lewis
A young girl’s impetuous decision alters the course of her life.
The Rising: The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
By Larry Silverstein
Recounting the brutal, protracted fight to reclaim Ground Zero.
Nadia
By Christine Evans
A queer Balkan Wars refugee seeks a new life in London.
Foreign Bodies
By Simon Schama
Anti-science hysteria is nothing new. (Ivermectin, anyone?)
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
By Rebecca L. Davis
A scholarly yet accessible survey of our collective naughty bits.
New collections to make life more lyrical.
Beautiful Dreamers: A Novel
By Minrose Gwin
A con man wreaks havoc on an eccentric family in 1950s Mississippi.
From Fiction to Fact
By Sara Fitzgerald
How an unearthed archive inspired me to tell a (truer) story about T.S. Eliot.
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
By Louis Bayard
The rakish Oscar and his family come alive in this smart, moving tale.
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