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In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.

Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, cynical mind.

In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.

In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town’s suppressed drama.

When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.

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.