Books

The Post’s Margaret Sullivan on the harm when local news is lost, and the efforts to revive it.

Jim Newton’s biography argues that the California governor was on the cutting edge.

An alliance between security services and the mob aided his rise, Catherine Belton writes.

Devotion to its donors pushed the party to the right, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue.

Our literary tastes are very different. Then quarantine left me looking for something to read.

‘Want’ grapples with a litany of contemporary social issues.

The 720-page book by the writer of “Being John Malkovich” may be long but it’s never dull.

Another new masterwork of scholarship is also available: G. Thomas Tanselle’s “Descriptive Bibliography.”

“Becoming Duchess Goldblatt” blends a fictional character’s signature wit with an author’s real grief.

Rather than a straightforward memoir, the actor has delivered a baffling but mesmerizing novel about a fictionalized version of himself.