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.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America
By James Polchin
An expertly spun tale of unequal justice in the 1920s.
The novelist talks process, podcasts, and Days of Wonder.
In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric
By Jonathan Elmer
An erudite, overblown case for Edgar’s lasting reach.
Big new titles perfect for the littles.
The CIA: An Imperial History
By Hugh Wilford
What did the spy service learn from colonialism?
Forgiving Imelda Marcos
By Nathan Go
This poignant debut asks: Who’s entitled to offer absolution?
The Supermajority
By Michael Waldman
Chronicling a right-wing cabal’s fracturing of norms in the U.S.
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