Mark Twain

By Ron Chernow

Mark Twain

This stellar biography doesn’t shy away from revealing its subject’s darker side.

Fat Leonard

By Craig Whitlock

Fat Leonard

A sickening scandal made possible with help from America’s finest.

Newshawks in Berlin

By Larry Heinzerling and Randy Herschaft with Ann Cooper

Newshawks in Berlin

Ignoring atrocities in the name of access.

City of Fiction: A Novel of Love and Violence in a Time of Change

Fate looms over all in this dark, ethereal tale from China.

Boat Baby: A Memoir

By Vicky Nguyen

Boat Baby: A Memoir

A sincere, somewhat bland account of achieving the American Dream.

Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection

There’s no such thing as humane executions.

The Eights: A Novel

By Joanna Miller

The Eights: A Novel

Four remarkable young women tackle Oxford in the early 1920s.

enough is enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

It’s “I” before “E,” except after…oh, screw it.