Jennifer Szalai

How ideas that used to be the arcane obsessions of nerdy young men and buttoned-up tenured professors have become 'an engine and accelerant' for extremism

Impunity is the central theme of 38 Londres Street, a marvellous and absorbing new book by the British-French lawyer and author Philippe Sands

Harris was initially bewildered by Biden's sudden switch, including his determination to rush out an announcement

Victoria Woodhull's improbable life - from clairvoyant to Wall Street broker to presidential candidate - is retold in Eden Collinsworth's witty new biography

Richard J Evans' 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich' is being justifiably lauded for its elegance and scope

Chandler deserves credit for refusing to relegate his book to the airy realm of wistful abstraction

The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy, a new book by Isaac Arnsdorf, a journalist at The Washington Post

Slow Productivity is Newport's eighth book; he is also a professor of computer science at Georgetown and a contributing writer at The New Yorker

The profusion of exclamation points is a tipoff that Lewis is at least somewhat aware how dumb such optimism looks in retrospect - especially now that Bankman-Fried's trial on fraud charges has begun

Egginton gestures at connections between the work of Heisenberg, Kant and Borges, between physics and metaphysics, fiction and fact

This is a propulsive book, one to be raced through; the planet is burning, and we are running out of time

The writer Leila Philip adds to a genre of pro-beaver literature that turns out to be more populous than most of us may have known

As the Yale historian Beverly Gage makes abundantly clear in G-Man, her revelatory new biography of Hoover, all of this is true

The story of humans measuring things is no less than the story of civilisation - a claim that sounds like irritating hyperbole but in this case turns out to be true

Gregg's clever and provocative book is full of irreverent notions and funny anecdotes - the creative upside to being a human animal

This "mirror of graciousness" wasn't something that Malaika, for one, was especially interested in providing

The animals in Yong's book are mostly nonhuman, but scientists are necessarily part of his story too

The biographical material in Metaphysical Animals is evocative and sparkling

Atoms and Ashes recounts six accidents in detail, the first three connected to 'atoms for war' (bomb-making) and the last three connected to 'atoms for peace' (energy production)

Yovanovitch was the child of immigrants who had fled the Soviets and the Nazis