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The fourth novel in his Morning Star series follows an ambitious young photographer in 1985 London.

In “Catapult,” an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.

In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the Middle East.

Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.

Sara Levine’s “The Hitch” is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all.

“The Old Fire,” an atmospheric new novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.

In a trilogy of novellas, a writer explores lives haunted by colonialism and slavery.

In “Sheer,” the novelist Vanessa Lawrence imagines the improbable rise and inglorious fall of a self-made Gen X beauty mogul.

In a useful entry in the growing canon of “quit lit,” Charles Knowles blends science and memoir to persuade readers to cut down on alcohol.