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In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.

In “The Ephemerata,” the veteran graphic novelist Carol Tyler explores the nature of loss.

Stephen Graham Jones’s horror novel offers a visceral take on the vampire legend.

“Indignity,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph.

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare.

A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.

Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel follows two teenagers determined to save a pair of ponies from slaughter.

The rock journalist turned writer turned filmmaker styles himself “The Uncool” in his new book.

Tim Wu’s “The Age of Extraction” is a dispiriting guide to the way Silicon Valley has warped our markets and our democracy.

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage.