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In Jennifer Hillier’s new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her seaside town.

“The Anniversary,” a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.

In “The Great Wherever,” generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

In “Days of Miracle and Wonder,” Ashley Kahn revisits the “trials and triumphs” of Paul Simon’s “Graceland.”

In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.

In “The Book of Chuck,” clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.

In “Range,” by the Danish writer Dorthe Nors, a misfit astrophysicist lives alone in the wilderness, struggling to connect.

In Edwidge Danticat’s new novel, “Dèy,” a Haitian American mother in Miami experiences the numbing aftershocks of a random act of violence.