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Terese Svoboda considers what’s worth protecting in a new novel and a story collection.

Britain’s youngest code-breakers, brought to life in a new nonfiction book by Candace Fleming, were normal teenagers: playing pranks, attending dances.

New books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive.

In “The Unclaimed,” the sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans tell four stories of dying alone — and living — in America.

In his eighth book, the best-selling author Cal Newport offers life hacks for producing high-quality work while working less.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book.

In “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out in the New York art scene.

“Tell,” by Jonathan Buckley, is a missing-person mystery recounted in fragmentary anecdotes.

In a chronicle laced with memoir, Nancy A. Nichols explores how the automobile has provided both freedom and dangers for female motorists.

Chronicling the high-heeled path to drag-queen superstardom, the new memoir also reveals a celebrity infatuated with his sense of a special destiny.