You might notice that those lines are all fathers and sons, sons and grandsons but in the new book, “Firstborn Girls” by Bernice L. McFadden, it’s like mother, like daughter.

Novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell, nonfiction by Ezra Klein, new “Hunger Games” and “Wicked” prequels and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by It’s been ...

By Robert D. McFadden Joseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and ...