Books

Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder podcast adds a new layer to a runaway true-crime genre

Madeleine Thien offers a family saga set amidst the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Understanding today’s radicals and resisters, through an oral history of August 1969 to August 1970

A snapshot of the current consensus on the very first cave drawings

Moby’s autobiography is endearing, poignant and laugh-out-loud hilarious

The quest to understand the human genome, the instructions that rule our form, our function and, more than we would wish, our fate

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s genetics book rises to the top of the pool. See what else made our list of the top-selling reads from the last week

Journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee explores What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)

Author Sebastian Junger asks what if PTSD is located not in the trauma of combat, but in the transition back to modern life?

The Money Cult is an eye-popping and prodigiously researched book on the history of religion and money in America