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Our columnist reviews “The Tapestry of Fate” and other books.

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.

Janet Fash’s memoir is both a sunny coming-of-age story and an exposé of corruption, understaffing and unnecessary deaths at Rockaway Beach.

Our columnist looks at the best recent releases.

An early champion of the mind-body connection, she held influential positions at Vogue, wrote steamy novels and regularly appeared in the tabloids.

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure.

The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.