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In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.

The “Bojack Horseman” designer Lisa Hanawalt bridles at glib therapists and is hot to trot for Mister Rogers in her new graphic memoir.

K-Ming Chang’s “Needlemouth” blends body horror with feminist allegory in the story of three cousins grappling with their inherited trauma.

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

Thanks to begrudging cooperation from the comedian and writer, a new biography is suitably kvetchy, if a little too long and a little too nice.

In “Every Story Is a Love Story,” a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.

In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.

A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.

Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.