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Lauren Elkin’s first novel, “Scaffolding,” traces the multiple infidelities of two Parisian couples a generation apart.

In a frank and entertaining new memoir, the TV newscaster recounts how sexism, and Dan Rather, sidelined her groundbreaking career.

In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.

Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.

“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.

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.