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In Karolina Waclawiak’s novel “Life Events,” a “death doula” struggles to detach from her patients.
Raven Leilani’s debut novel follows an interracial, intergenerational affair as it leads to an unusual redefinition of family.
In “Inventory,” Darran Anderson sorts through the objects and memories of his 1980s Northern Ireland adolescence.
Sophy Roberts goes on a quest for a rare instrument, and discovers a vast, uncharted history along the way.
Three new books analyze what the Trump presidency has meant for American politics and American society.
Benjamin Carter Hett’s “The Nazi Menace” examines the path to World War II and German responsibility.
Jeffrey Toobin’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors” examines the battle over the Mueller report and how Donald Trump prevailed.
An excerpt from “The Death of Vivek Oji,” by Akwaeke Emezi
Caoilinn Hughes’s novel “The Wild Laughter” considers the catastrophic effects of the fall of the Celtic Tiger.
Jill McCorkle’s “Hieroglyphics” examines the end of life through the stories of an aging couple and a tragic murder trial.
In “The Book of Atlantis Black,” Betsy Bonner attempts to solve the mysterious fate of her troubled, enigmatic older sister.
An excerpt from “Wandering in Strange Lands,” by Morgan Jerkins
An excerpt from “Life of a Klansman,” by Edward Ball
“Fallout,” by Lesley M.M. Blume, recounts how John Hersey revealed the devastating toll of the atomic bomb on the citizens of Hiroshima.
The new book by Margot Mifflin shows how the famous contest for women reflected conflicting ideas about female beauty, ambition and fame over the past 100 years.
In “The End of Everything,” the theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack takes a look at the ultimate doom and destruction of our universe. It’s not pretty.
In “Caste,” the journalist Isabel Wilkerson looks to other countries’ histories to show how our racial order is founded on a hierarchal structure of hereditary status.
In “Inferno,” Catherine Cho writes honestly of surviving postpartum psychosis.
Agustina Bazterrica’s dystopian second novel, “Tender Is the Flesh,” uses cannibalism to highlight the inhumanity of factory farming.
In “A Furious Sky,” Eric Jay Dolin recounts 500 years of reckoning with the monster storms that come in off the Atlantic Ocean.
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