By Alexandra Alter Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman In a ...

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The subtitle of Sergey Radchenko’s book makes it sound like an aspirant bestseller from the height of America ... Thomas Love Peacock didn’t want to write novels, at least not in the form they had ...

Rain of Ruin, a new study by war expert Richard Overy, decisively shows that the atomic bombs didn’t force the Japanese emperor’s hand ...