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Also among the 13 works up for the British literary award are the latest books from Douglas Stuart, Gwendoline Riley and Emma Cline.

“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.

A new book by the historian Micki McElya considers how the politics of beauty both shaped and divided the women’s movement.

In “The Renoir Girls,” the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d’Anvers family.

In a sobering new book, Annie Jacobsen considers the potentially civilization-ending impacts of biological war.

The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.

Sarai Walker’s “Furious Violet” is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.

A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.

In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.