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

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

A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.

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

Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.

Jessica Shattuck’s “Last House” dips into the cultural intrigues of 20th-century America, but keeps its nose surprisingly clean.

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

In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.

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

“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.