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The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees “the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies,” he says in a new memoir.

An Yu portrays a community trying to maintain daily routines amid dire, irreversible circumstances.

In the scrumptious “Tart,” the anonymous London haute-cuisine veteran Slutty Cheff tells all. Deliciously.

Elliot Ackerman keeps a light tone in his new novel, “Sheepdogs,” though a more somber back story sometimes peeks through.

These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more.

In “People Like Us,” Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence.

Jon Raymond’s new book considers lofty questions as an affair and a climate disaster unfold.

“The Afghans,” by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, tells the country’s turbulent recent history through the lives of three people.

Alexis Soloski’s new thriller follows the evolution, and erosion, of a young performer ensnared in a cultlike theater troupe.

In “Summer of Our Discontent,” the journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams argues that Floyd’s murder in 2020 upended American racial politics — with lasting, often adverse effects.