The Scientist and the Serial Killer by Lise Olsen
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The quest to identify the last victims of one of America’s worst serial killers
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Speeches & Writing of John Quincy Adams in Library of America
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A well-annotated new collection of the writings of John Quincy Adams
Read MoreBirds, Sex, and Beauty by Matt Ridley
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Darwin’s “Descent of Man” goes to the hottest bird-dating spots in the world
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Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold
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A new history of the infamous Crippen murder case centers on the women of the story
Read MoreInventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
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A big and decidedly unconventional history of the Renaissance’s darker sides
Read MoreClose to Home by Thor Hanson
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A conservationist finds natural miracles in his own back yard
Read MoreInside the Stargazer's Palace by Violet Muller
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A lively, personality-driven history of the birth of science
Read MoreThe Franklin Stove by Joyce E. Chaplin
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A history of the broader context of Benjamin Franklin’s famous invention
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Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto
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From the author of “The Island at the Center of the World,” a history of the beginnings of New York
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The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O'Sullivan
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A searing account of the modern epidemic of over-diagnosing everything in sight.
Read MoreThe Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart
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An engaging new study of the history and many uses of Celtic identity
Read MoreThe World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
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Historian Pankaj Mishra looks at Israel’s war on Gaza
Read MoreA Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, edited by Kevin Young
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A big new poetry anthology commemorates the magazine’s 100th year
Read MoreDen of Spies by Craig Unger
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A new history of the negotiations that put Ronald Reagan in power
Read MoreSummer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper
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A colorful new history of a social convulsion in 16th-century Germany
Read MoreNew and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
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The narrator of McCrae’s poem sequence takes a strange journey
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