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Mohammed Hanif’s “Rebel English Academy” follows three characters in the politically fraught Pakistan of the late 1970s.

In “Emilio Pucci,” the subject’s niece and her husband explore the early life of the Italian designer who dressed the jet set.

In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color.

A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.”

A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular success.

In “End of Days,” Chris Jennings recounts how a collision between apocalyptic Christianity and federal overreach led to a deadly standoff in Idaho.

In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson.

Rebecca Novack’s novel, “Murder Bimbo,” is a devious and outrageously entertaining satire that skewers America’s surreal political landscape.

A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary’s infamous “blood countess,” separating fact from myth.

As usual, Lionel Shriver sets out to puncture pieties, but “A Better Life” feels full of easy targets.