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To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.

In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.

In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.

Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.

In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.

A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel.

The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word.

In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.