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“Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and a live-action movie.

In “The CIA Book Club,” Charlie English tells the story of America’s war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

A new biography looks at the decades-long career of an American original who captured the country’s complex moral universe onscreen.

Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs.