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In “When America Roared,” Jonathan Kaufman draws together a bushel of figures who thrived in one fateful decade.

“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.

In “Ausländer,” Michael Moritz, the managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.

But the comedian isn’t naïve when he makes selections for his popular book club: “Most importantly, they’re short.”

Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

In “True North,” the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.

“Know Your Rights” is the latest publication from the public schools’ educational comics program Civics for All.

In “Live Laugh Love,” Kristin Kobes Du Mez examines how Christian women absorbed the idea that material abundance was evidence of divine favor.

For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.