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Kathryn Stockett’s prodigious second novel, “The Calamity Club,” brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.

Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers.

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.

In her memoir “Backtalker,” Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw shows how personal trauma spurred her influential and controversial ideas about race and gender.

Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake.

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A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.

Benjamin Hale’s book “Cave Mountain” connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.

The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated “even if we don’t hear a single one of his words.”

In “Prophecy,” Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.