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In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.

In “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America’s sins.

Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.

The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.

New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.

What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.

In “Stag Dance,” Torrey Peters probes the complicated, evolving realities of queerness and trans life.

Fernando A. Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast.