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In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.

In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.

In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.

The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.

In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.

An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.