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Daniel Kraus’s “Angel Down” follows a World War I private who encounters a celestial being on the battlefield.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Wild Dark Shore,” Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold.

The Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s new novel pieces together fragments of a trip she took to Paris at the request of a much older photographer.

The poet’s debut novel features estranged sisters and a missing mother who seemingly reappears decades later.

The two teenagers in this hard-boiled novel go to work for a narcotics gang and end up in a far more sinister trade.

Your burning questions about the postal service are answered in Stephen Starring Grant’s lively memoir.

A new book investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.

Hannah Pittard goes back to the tale of her busted marriage in a comic novel about a claustrophobic literary milieu — and a talking cat.

“Pan,” by Michael Clune, details a year in the life of a suburban adolescent who can’t shake his panic attacks.