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Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.

Sarah Hepola’s new memoir picks up where “Blackout” left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.

In “This Cursed Beautiful Land,” the journalist Evan Gershkovich explores what he learned while imprisoned in the country his parents fled.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.

“The Bed Trick” details an extraordinary sexual deception case involving a “bamboozling plot,” “two implausible stories” and a world where no one behaves reasonably.

In “Artificial Intimacy,” Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even our democracy.

A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.

In Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s novel “Heavy Cream,” a teenager tries to fill the vacuum left behind by her unstable, unreachable mother.

The beloved author’s follow-up to “Pachinko” features a cram school that dares to promote students’ well-being over academic striving.

The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.