A new memoir reveals the true story of a Jewish child in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance. This isn't just ...

So what’s worse than a fascist atop world history’s most lethal superpower in the middle of an ecological catastrophe led by that superpower in an ...

Nazis; and a New Age of Hate’ by Eric Lichtblau. The dispiriting nature of author Eric Lichtblau’s latest subject “might be ...

Thomas Harding’s “The Einstein Vendetta” tries, with missionary zeal, to uncover the facts of a long-ago crime.

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

The new book, Twelve Months, released this week after a five-year wait.

Braude, whose last book (“Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris”) featured some of the same real-life characters ...

“At one in the afternoon On December 22, 1984,” writes Thompson, “as Bernie Goetz was zipping up his thin windbreaker and ...

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

There’s a scene at the start of Robert Harris’s novel Munich, about the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which the dire state of Britain’s pre-war defences are described. One by one, the chiefs of staff tell ...

In his criminal trial, Goetz was acquitted of the most serious charges, including attempted murder. The defense persuaded the jury that Goetz’s self-incriminating statements to the police — “I was ...

From his time as a British spy during the Second World War to his troubled career as a Hollywood screenwriter, Roald Dahl is ...