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Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.

A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.

Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

In “The Family Dynamic,” Susan Dominus examines what makes some families “exceptional.”

As President Trump pushes to end the Russian invasion, two books look at the paramilitary Wagner Group and consider the shape of global conflict today.

In “A Sharp Endless Need,” two female high school athletes get lost in a vortex of passion while grappling with deeper wounds.

In Hilary Plum’s novel “State Champ,” a mediocre receptionist goes on a hunger strike — only to question the purpose of protest.

“Fever Beach” is a wacky blend of Floridian farce and the perverse politics of our time.

Laurence Leamer, the author of “Capote’s Women” and “Hitchcock’s Blondes,” takes the measure of another powerful man and his female muses.