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In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.

In “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America’s sins.

Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.

A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.

The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.