Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book is Crossings.(Image credit: Devon OpdenDries/Getty Images)

Set in the near future, C Pam Zhang's atmospheric novel centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.(Image credit: Penguin Random House)

In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton offers a scathing critique of American politics and economic policy.(Image credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Washington was an adult when she learned that she had been conceived via artificial insemination and the man she considered her father was not her biological dad. Her new memoir is Thicker than Water.(Image credit: Little, Brown Spark )

Academics, activists and Black history advocates were in Jacksonville, Fla. last week where they showed defiance of educational policies that ban books and discourage knowledge about Black history.

A rare short story by acclaimed author Truman Capote is published for the first time.