The Prince was written a decade after Machiavelli spent time with Cesare ... the battlefields. This is a splendidly colourful book. Admittedly, some of that colour concerns Machiavelli’s rather ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography ...

In 1987, well before entering the political arena as a candidate for president the first time in 2016, Donald Trump wrote a ...

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By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

Prince William is the eldest son of Charles and his first wife Diana, Princess of Wales. In his early life, he grew up at Kensington Palace with his younger brother Prince Harry, where he still ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight. The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard ...

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