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After his partner, Molly Brodak, died by suicide, Blake Butler found painful truths in her journals and personal items.

In “Long Live Queer Nightlife,” the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.

In Lisa Ko’s adventurous novel “Memory Piece,” youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.

In “God’s Ghostwriters,” the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.

In “Nuclear War” and “Countdown,” Annie Jacobsen and Sarah Scoles talk to the people whose job it is to prepare for atomic conflict.

In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy.

In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.

New books from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard and Scott Guild.

Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.

In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.