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Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.

There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.

These days, readings in the city can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as a trendy restaurant.

Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.

“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.

“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.

Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.

The author’s new memoir, “Knife,” addresses the attack that maimed him in 2022, and pays tribute to the wife who saw him through. “I wanted to write a book which was about both love and hatred — one overcoming the other,” he says.