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Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.

A stirring memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer chronicles her family’s life in the aftermath of traumatic rupture.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s parents were leaders of the Weather Underground. His new book traces how their revolutionary ideals collided with their family life.

The fast success of this play, about the children’s author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.

In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present.

For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.

In “The Theater,” the journalist James Verini recounts the bombing of a performing arts space turned refugee shelter in the middle of war-torn Mariupol.

The best-selling author recommends books by Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and more where the line between nemeses and soul mates becomes deliciously flimsy.

In his first book, Theo Baker chronicles an outrageously eventful year navigating an enigmatic center of power.

In “The Wonderful World That Almost Was,” Andrew Durbin reconstructs the coterie that surrounded the artist-lovers Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.