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In the psychological thriller “Casualties of Truth,” by Lauren Francis-Sharma, a woman and a country are both forced to face the harrowing violence that has shaped them.

In “Talk to Me,” Rich Benjamin investigates his family’s harrowing past to better understand the troubles that continued to plague them.

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

In Callan Wink’s new novel, two brothers struggling to make ends meet are forced to turn to shady ventures.

The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm.

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In the 2022 Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.

The novelist Robyn Gigl picks her favorite courtroom dramas and legal whodunits — some of which may surprise you.