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In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic.

“Menewood” continues Nicola Griffith’s epic portrayal of the abbess Hild of Whitby.

The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas.

In the author’s latest collection, “Our Strangers,” quotidian situations are stripped down to come alive.

In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.

The author blends polemic and family history in a fragmentary memoir, “A Man of Two Faces.”

A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.

Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

In his fond memoir “Making It So,” the actor traces the path from the working class to the Shakespearean stage to “Star Trek” superstardom.

Amy Schneider’s new memoir, “In the Form of a Question,” captures a life of bold choices well beyond wagers on the Daily Double.