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Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.

“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.

“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.

As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”

In “New Cold Wars,” David E. Sanger tracks the shifts in U.S. foreign policy as competition among the great powers re-emerges in the 21st century.

In the debut novel “The Band,” a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui?

Cult leaders, curdled 1960s idealism and outsider art collide in Max Ludington’s prismatic novel, “Thorn Tree.”

Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.