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Books published in the Trump era reveal the battles over, and changes in, the American presidency today. In this special episode of “Presidential,” Post nonfiction book critic Carlos Lozada shares what he’s learned from reading more than 150 of them.

What better way to get ready for Halloween than reading a horror-filled book? Here are four tomes to check out, from Joe Hill to Joyce Carol Oates.        

An author ponders the challenges of poking fun at the current administration.

“Kant’s Little Prussian Head” reminds us that literature and art connect us with the wisdom of the past.

The Justice Department is suing Stephanie Winston Wolkoff for breach of contract for publishing her tell-all White House memoir, "Melania and Me."        

"A Lover's Discourse" follows an unnamed young woman who moves to London and simultaneously has to adapt to a foreign culture and to a foreign lover.        

Hoda Kotb's second book of quotes, "This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live By Every Day," has been published at exactly the right time.        

“The Perfect Nine” tells the tale of Gikuyu and Mumbi, progenitors of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya.

Bette Greene tackled tough and sometimes controversial issues in her novels, marketed to the Young Adult audience. She died Oct. 2 at age 86.        

Her new graphic memoir, “We Saw Scenery,” is based on old diaries she found three years ago: “I wrote down everything.”

Brosh’s long-awaited graphic memoir comes seven years after her bestseller, “Hyperbole and a Half.”

Many people know Bruce Lee, the iconic martial artist and actor, but his daughter Shannon Lee is introducing her father's philosophies in a new book.        

In a time of global pandemic, racial justice uprising and economic hardship, Rumaan Alam's "Leave the World Behind" is the best read right now.