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In M.L. Stedman’s new novel, “A Far-Flung Life,” the beauty and breadth of her setting stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.

“Backstitch,” a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.

In “El Paso,” Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.

In Maria Stepanova’s novel “The Disappearing Act,” an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.

James Cahill’s “The Violet Hour” contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.

Emily Brontë’s classic Gothic romance is the basis for a new movie. It’s also more bonkers than you remember.

“Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.

In a new book, the biographer Justine Picardie romps through a century of royal wardrobes.

In Tayari Jones’s new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they’ve always yearned for.