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Jinwoo Chong’s new novel, “I Leave It Up to You,” is a story of food, family and new beginnings after a tragedy.

The narrator of Ada Calhoun’s autofictional “Crush” strives toward “holiness” — in an extramarital affair.

Before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee had written short stories in which she explored some of its themes and characters.

In Agustina Bazterrica’s new novel, “The Unworthy,” a dystopian future ravaged by climate change has stripped the world of food, water and human connection.

In Laila Lalami’s new novel, a woman finds herself trapped in a nightmarish system of surveillance and detention.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she went on to write about “hookup culture” and young women’s sexual experiences for The Washington Post and in a best-selling book.

He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island.

In “Taking Manhattan,” Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center of the world.

“How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.

Two new memoirs show the commonalities — and differences — in the end of every marriage.