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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.

With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.

The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.

Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.