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Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.

Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.

In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.

In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”