Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week's notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa ...

The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...

Here’s the third installment of our Spring books round-up, with thought-provoking stories from a trans author, self-reflective queer memoirs including one from a longtime AIDS-era survivor, and both ...