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.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
How controversial south-of-the-border clinics approach addiction.
Wandering the Stacks
By Paul Jaskunas
On reading aimlessly at the Library of Congress.
Time’s Echo
By Jeremy Eichler
This cerebral work explores music’s power to capture an age.
In a Flight of Starlings
By Giorgio Parisi
The intriguing science behind our endless connectedness.
Bear: A Novel
By Julia Phillips
Sisters in the Pacific Northwest grapple with threats real and (possibly) metaphorical.
Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
By Brian Fairbanks
A virtuoso account of the renegade artists who redefined a genre.
But books like Maus must never stop telling it.
The Disappeared
By Rebecca J. Sanford
Fallout from Argentina’s Dirty War haunts a family across generations.
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