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Austin Kelley gently lampoons high-minded magazines and the fragile men who work at them in his debut novel, “The Fact Checker.”

In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.

Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel.

A mythical lion cub stuck in the modern world must harness the power of stories to save his family and return home.

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.

In “Changing My Mind,” the novelist Julian Barnes presents an argument for the joys of flexibility.

In “Abundance,” Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump’s return to power.

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s Tanzania.

Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.

In the memoir “Firstborn,” Lauren Christensen writes about losing the daughter she was expecting.