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In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.

Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.

In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.

Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.

With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.

The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.