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His new novel, “Palaver,” observes how an expat in Japan and his visiting mother find “a new language and way of being that’s amenable for them both.”

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel, “Terry Dactyl,” follows a young trans woman figuring out who she is throughout the AIDS crisis and Covid pandemic.

Sarah Hall’s inventive new novel spans centuries, showing how Britain’s famed Helm shaped people and how people are shaping it.

During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

“The Slip,” by Lucas Schaefer, involves a missing teenager and a boxing gym full of Texans of all stripes.

In her vivid epistolary novel “The White Hot,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.

The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don’t expect him to try to win you over.

George Packer, the author of multiple works on a divided America, tries his hand at dystopian allegory.

In “Without Consent,” Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women’s ongoing struggle for justice.