Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

Nigel Hamilton 's new book, " Lincoln vs. Davis ," is a study of its subjects as rival Civil War commanders. Below, the ...

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.