Miguel Salazar

Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne Phillips; and more.

Three authors chronicle the history of the World Cup and of U.S. men’s soccer.

Miguel Salazar of the New York Times Books Review recommends three titles that can help you understand the history of the World Cup.

A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.

The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad’s new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.

Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.

The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Even if you’ve never watched a priest levitate, a carpet fly or a drop of blood climb over curbs, there’s something for you.

Check out books by Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Joe Hill, and revisit familiar worlds with Dan Brown, Mick Herron and Bolu Babalola.

Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.

Vivian Ayers Allen, Poet and Cultural Activist, Dies at 102