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If James wins for “The Disappearers” or Stuart for “John of John,” it would be a rare second win for an author in the history of the prestigious literary award.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

In “True North,” the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.

“Swan Song,” Charles Spencer’s memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.

Doireann Ni Ghriofa’s “Said the Dead” is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.

In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.

In “The Age of Cures,” the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.

In “Hollywood, Ending,” two young actors navigate the highs and lows of the movie industry.

In “Ausländer,” Michael Moritz, the former managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.

In “Shadow Before the Flame,” Catherine Grace Katz puts us back on the famously doomed airship.