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Robert Harris' new An Officer and a Spy is a fictionalized account of the Dreyfus Affair — which, as critic Alan Cheuse notes, is tailor made for Harris' talents: there's an innocent victim at the center, a melodramatic villain, buffoonish military brass, crusading newspaper editors and a star turn from the novelist Emile Zola.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

In 1963 Betty Friedan published a groundbreaking work that empowered a generation of women. With World War II over, women who had been working were told to find fulfillment at home. "The moment was so pregnant and ready for an explosion," says New York Times columnist Gail Collins.

Videos and photos provide some clues, but much remains unknown about the horrific explosion at the site.

The first-ever murder conviction of a member of the Indian cabinet is seen as an embarrassment for the government. It also raises questions about crime in the body politic of the world's largest democracy.

J. Michael Lennon's mammoth new Norman Mailer: A Double Life draws on 25 years of access to its subject. Reviewer Alan Cheuse — himself a Mailer fan — says the biography is a "satisfying experience" that reads almost as if it came directly from the writer himself.

Rachel Joyce's new novel offers two parallel narratives: the 1972 story of Byron, an anxious schoolboy, and the present-day account of Jim, a supermarket worker who has spent most of his life in institutional care. But critic Ellah Allfrey says that the novel is made up of two distinct and unequal parts.

The Supreme Court is back on the bench for a new term full of cases involving controversial issues — like guns, abortion, social media and more.

The company that operates the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee says it has fired the guards involved in Mitchell's death late last month, saying their conduct "violated our policies and procedures."

Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza on Friday. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks his former colleague and MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin about his life.