The Rarest Fruit
By Gaëlle Bélem; translated by Hildegarde Serle
An enslaved boy’s cuisine-altering innovation is credited to his white “father.”
A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy
By Tony Lee Moral
Two figures from the auteur’s orbit feature heavily in this new biography.
Introducing Science Politics
By Kelly J. Kelly and Emily Mendenhall
Red Sheet: A Novel
By James Ellroy
Freddy Otash returns, although he probably shouldn’t have.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
By Fergus M. Bordewich
An able account of the nation’s 100th-birthday spectacle.









