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In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.

In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.

In “The Ephemerata,” the veteran graphic novelist Carol Tyler explores the nature of loss.

Stephen Graham Jones’s horror novel offers a visceral take on the vampire legend.

“Indignity,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph.

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare.

A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.

Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel follows two teenagers determined to save a pair of ponies from slaughter.

Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.

He announced that “The Once and Future Riot,” which considers sectarian violence in India, would be his last. But he’s compelled to return to Gaza.