In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.
Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”
In “The Revolutionary Temper,” the historian Robert Darnton immerses readers in the world of the everyday Parisians who would help topple the monarchy of Louis XVI.