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“The Slip,” by Lucas Schaefer, involves a missing teenager and a boxing gym full of Texans of all stripes.

In her vivid epistolary novel “The White Hot,” the Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes explores the long-tail legacy of maternal rage and regret.

The senator from Pennsylvania chronicles his stroke, unlikely election victory and battle with depression. Just don’t expect him to try to win you over.

George Packer, the author of multiple works on a divided America, tries his hand at dystopian allegory.

In “Without Consent,” Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women’s ongoing struggle for justice.

“The Silver Book” follows one pivotal year in the life of the famed Italian costume designer Danilo Donati.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.

Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage.

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

Now unjustly overlooked, “The Ha-Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.