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“Vulture Peak” is the fifth installment of John Burdett’s Bangkok mysteries.
“Rule and Ruin” by Geoffrey Kabaservice and “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism” by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
“Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” by William Shawcross
“Heinrich Himmler” by Peter Longerich
“Pogo Through the Wild Blue Wonder: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1” by Walt Kelly
“A Slave in the White House,” by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor.
Year-end picks
“Gossip” by Joseph Epstein
“A Train in Winter:
An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France,” by Caroline Moorehead
“On Rereading,” by Patricia Meyer Spacks
“Backward Ran Sentences:
The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker,” by Wolcott Gibbs
“Fenway 1912,” by Glenn Stout
“My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,” by Mark Whitaker
“Rin Tin Tin,” by Susan Orlean, is a look at the dog of movie and TV fame.
‘Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins,’ by Thomas Smith
“The Cut” by George Pelecanos
Hugh Thomas’s “The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America”
Tom Scocca’s “Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future”
“An Ideal Wine,” by David Darlington
Jonathan Yardley reviews Precious Objects, by Alicia Oltuski
“Red Summer,” by Cameron McWhirter, is about racial violence in the year 1919.
‘The Chitlin’ Circuit’ by Preston Lauterbach, about pre-rock black music.
‘Turn Right at Machu Picchu,’ by Mark Adams, is a travel book about the Peruvian historic site.
Review of ‘Paris to the Past,’ by Ina Caro
Carmela Ciuraru’s History of Pseudonyms
“What a Wonderful World” is an appreciation of Louis Armstrong.
Earl Swift’s “The Big Roads,” about American superhighways
Yardley reviews ‘Daughters of the Revolution’
“Saints and Sinners,” a new collection of stories by Edna O’Brien
“Saints and Sinners,” a new collection of stories by Edna O’Brien
Adam Hochschild’s “To End All Wars,” on World War I
“In the Basement of the Ivory Tower” gets a failing grade
In “The Perfect Nazi,” author Davidson examines truth about his German grandfather.
Wendy McClure’s “The Wilder Life,” on “Little House on the Prairie”
Review: Gary W. Gallagher’s “The Union War”
Yardley: Joanna Trollope’s “Daughters-in-Law”
Yardley reviews “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf”
Yardley: Michael Frayn’s “My Father’s Fortune”
John F. Mariani’s “How Italian Food Conquered the World”
Thomas E. Kennedy’s “Falling Sideways”
Jonathan Gill's "Harlem"
Yardley reviews Jonathan Gill's "Harlem"
"The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
"The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
"Livia: Empress of Rome," by Matthew Dennison is a biography of Emperor Augustus' second wife.
"Livia: Empress of Rome," by Matthew Dennison is a biography of Emperor Augustus' second wife.
Rebel slaves, silenced
Daniel Rasmussen's "American Uprising" a flawed account of 1811 slave rebellion
Yardley reviews "Passport to Peking"
Childhood in a minor key
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