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The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
By Matthew Specktor
All that glitters is gold for a Tinseltown writer.
When the World Explodes: Essays
By Amy Lee Scott
Personal history and natural disasters intertwine in these reflections on trauma.
Out of the Darkness
By Frank Trentmann
How does a nation overcome its barbaric past?
The Translator’s Daughter
By Grace Loh Prasad
A Taiwanese American woman struggles to reclaim her voice.
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing
By Joshua Hammer
An overabundance of detail hobbles what could’ve been an absorbing saga.
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution
By Joyce E. Chaplin
This excellent history covers far more than the Founder’s forays into home heating.
The Politics of Fear
By Arthur Goldwag
From Pizzagate to QAnon, conspiracy theories are nothing new.
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
By Blake Gopnik
How an irascible iconoclast built a temple to modern art.
