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Damien Lewis makes the case that the legendary cabaret star was a daring World War II-era spy.
The stories in K-Ming Chang’s “Gods of Want” are obsessed with the hungers and precarities of emigration and queer love.
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Zain Khalid’s “Brother Alive” follows three brothers from Staten Island to Saudi Arabia, with plenty to say about the modern world.
The author and filmmaker Rebecca Miller plays with notions of convention, comfort and surprise in her latest collection, “Total.”
Dan Fesperman’s “Winter Work” is set amid confusion and moral compromise in East Germany as Communism fell.
Chinelo Okparanta’s second novel attempts to skewer white liberal solipsism.
Meenakshi Ahamed’s “A Matter of Trust” traces the tangled, complicated and difficult relationship between two allies that are not quite friends.
Nada Alic’s debut story collection pierces superficial appearances to access deeper human connection.
In “Roll Red Roll,” Nancy Schwartzman revisits a teenage girl’s 2012 assault by high school football players, and its aftermath.
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In their memoirs, Carmen Rita Wong and Chrysta Bilton open up about how they learned of secrets, lies and unkept promises.
In “The Crane Wife,” CJ Hauser delves into issues of identity and connection with humor and grace.
Dark talks about her new novel, and Katherine Chen discusses “Joan,” her fictional imagining of Joan of Arc.
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Two siblings, a playful teacher’s class and three friends let their imaginations loose in the great outdoors.
Gabrielle Zevin’s novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a love letter to the Literary Gamer.
In Tom Mead’s “Death and the Conjuror,” a man is found dead in his study, his throat cut. There is no weapon in the room, and the doors are locked — from the inside.
A graphic review of two new books that explain how the world’s insects came to be in peril.
A selection of books published this week.
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