And There Was Light by Jon Meacham

The celebrated biographer returns with an account of Abraham Lincoln’s life that transcends the binary of pure hero or savvy politician. “To see him as only a political creature is to give the means of his life priority over its ends,” Meacham writes.

Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood

In this mystery, set in 1940s New York City, a pulp magazine writer claims that a killer is copying crimes from her work.

Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Glück

Glück, the late 2020 Nobel laureate who recently passed away, departs from her usual craft of poetry to offer a novella about infant twins.

Scientist: E.O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes

The scientist, naturalist and two-time Pulitzer winner — who died in 2021 — “popularised the term ‘biophilia’”.

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

This intricate cultural history explains Method acting, which originated with the Russian actor and theorist Konstantin Stanislavski and was transformed through the prism of Depression-era America.

Saha by Cho Nam-joo; translated by Jamie Chang

Town, a city-state that is “not quite company or country”, enforces a multi-tiered class system. Labouring under it are the citizenship-less, referred to by the name of the decrepit apartment complex where they live. The Saha Estates are where authorities turn when a doctor is murdered, and where Jin-kyung decides to fight back, for her missing brother, her neighbours and herself.

(The New York Times News Service)