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In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.

In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.

Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.

He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.

Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.