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In “Glitter and Concrete,” Elyssa Maxx Goodman traces the emergence of drag in the early 1900s, its descent underground after the Depression and its 1980s renaissance, spurred by club culture.

Hannah Stowe grew up in coastal Wales, dreaming of a life on the ocean. Her memoir, “Move Like Water,” recounts how she pursued her passion.

“The Wolves of Eternity” wrestles with conflicting worldviews in a tale of intersecting lives.

Speaking across linguistic and emotional boundaries, or perhaps not speaking at all, these characters leave the reader to read between the lines.

In its first half-century, Ms. magazine upended norms, disrupted the print world and made trouble. It was a start.

In his novel “Beyond the Door of No Return,” David Diop explores the secret life of Michel Adanson, who cataloged the natural world during the Enlightenment.

A Mexican American family heads to Jalisco in their Winnebago and a “bruja” from Puerto Rico steps out of a cab in Brooklyn.

“Taming the Street,” by Diana B. Henriques, and “The Problem of Twelve,” by John Coates, tell the story of America’s powerful and unwieldy financial institutions.

In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren Grush details the basics of training and the challenges of sexism without lionizing her heroines.

In Diana Evans’s new novel, “A House for Alice,” a woman who immigrated to Britain for marriage must decide whether or not to return to her country of origin after her husband dies.