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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.

Matthew Quick’s memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, “Unsayable” feels destined for the graduation gift bag.

In “The Mortons,” a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.

A new compendium of Roberta Gregory’s comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.

In “The Lost Founder,” the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.

In Claire Vaye Watkins’s novel “Yellow Pine,” a single woman having an existential crisis decides now is the time to have a child.

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