Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau, Little, Brown, 2019, 306 pgs., $19.99 Marc Favreau’s new book Spies opens with the gripping story of a woman who’d...

There You Are by Mathea Morais, Amberjack Publishing, 2019, 311 pages, $24.99 Mathea Morais teaches at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and is the new director of the Noepe Center...

Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, by Lizabeth Cohen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, $35, 547 pages. “In every...

Around the World in Thirty Years by Shirley W. Mayhew, Music Street Press, 2019, 153 pages, $21. There are a few inherent perils in writing travel memoirs, of course. Some are caught up in the...

Deep Water Blues by Fred Waitzkin, Open Road, 143 pages, $17.99 . “Many times, I’ve made the long ocean voyage to Rum Cay to troll off the southeast corner of the island,” writes...

Purple Pride: A High School Coach’s Journey by Donald Herman, 2019, 179 pages, $15.95 Once upon a time in the 1980s, at a gala University of Iowa reception, a smiling functionary guided a...

Numbers are naturally uncertain on the point, but it’s estimated that in the present day roughly 250 million people are living in countries where they were not born. Millions and perhaps...

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks — The Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians By William McKeever, HarperOne, 2019, 320 pgs. $25.99. Since it’s 2019...

From her earliest years, writes Janet Messineo in her terrific new book Casting into the Light: Tales of a Fishing Life, she knew she wanted to be a great fisherman. “I knew I was as capable...

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, author of Hiroshima by Jeremy Treglown, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, 384 pgs., $28. Biographer, critic, and former TLS editor Jeremy Treglown...