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In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot’s marriage to “the publishing world’s P.T. Barnum.”

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled sharp edges and melancholy resolutions.

Dino Buzzati’s best works evoke the fabulism, paranoia and allegory of writers like Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and Italo Calvino.

Kashana Cauley’s novel “The Payback” imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they’re into reiki.

A classic coming-of-age novel; a cultural history of early America.

In “Nothing More of This Land,” the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island’s Indigenous history.

“Mexican Gothic” was a breakout book for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who describes herself as “not a people person.” Her new novel is “The Bewitching.”

Hannah Pittard wrote a memoir about the breakup. When she learned that her ex planned a novel about it, she took it back up, this time as fiction (sort of).

In her new book, “A Marriage at Sea,” the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.

Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.”