Book Review

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.

In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.

Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.

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

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

A baker’s dozen of sports books — including athlete memoirs, biographies, team histories and a few classics of the form — are tucked away in this very short story. Can you find them all?

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

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

In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.