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New Yorker staff writer John Seabrook recounts his family鈥檚 history of innovation and exploitation, creativity and excess, in 鈥淭he Spinach King.鈥�

More Than Words is a bookstore, but one that does more than sell $3.8 million worth of merchandise a year. It serves young people who are dealing with homelessness or legal challenges and gives them a聽place where they belong.

In witness protection, a budding cellist and his family must develop new talents in Brendan Slocumb鈥檚 鈥淭he Dark Maestro.鈥�

Shaun Walker interviewed former Soviet agents for 鈥淭he Illegals,鈥� a highly readable account of Russian operatives and their missions in the West.

Michelle Young鈥檚 biography of Rose Valland examines how a museum archivist was able to strike a blow against Nazis' art looting in occupied France.

The 10 best books of May give you an early start on porch-swing, beach, and vacation reading.聽

Playwright Sarah Ruhl reflects on the people in her life who taught by example. She also credits her children with teaching her how to slow down.

Historian Peniel Joseph鈥檚 鈥淔reedom Season鈥� raises up the work of Black activists seeking a more just society in the pivotal year of 1963.

Vietnamese American novelist and poet Ocean Vuong builds moments of tenderness and heartache that flow among his characters like a river.聽聽

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as America鈥檚 first celebrity.