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Life on the red planet? “Bosh and nonsense,” said one astronomer. But according to “The Martians,” plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.

A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.

A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.

Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.

Kaila Yu’s “Fetishized” is a candid and intimate memoir of the exoticized Asian body.

The best-selling horror and fantasy author Silvia Moreno-Garcia recommends books about the terrors that lurk under the stairs.

“Born in Flames,” by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.

In “Baldwin: A Love Story,” Nicholas Boggs goes far beyond other scholars in tracing Baldwin’s relationships and their role in his work.

Mark Doten’s new book examines a contemporary American culture that routinely defies satire.