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Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.

From a 200th-anniversary edition of Clement C. Moore’s Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly loopy poems for every day of the year.

It was an amazing year for horror. Here are 10 great titles that stood out.

Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.”

Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.

A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here’s where to start.

This captivating adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel, a collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, follows a man and his ailing mother during a civil war in South Africa.

“Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.

Samantha Harvey’s fifth novel, “Orbital,” follows a day in the life of six international astronauts circling Earth on a space station.

In Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel, “Yours for the Taking,” a feminist cultural icon runs a lifesaving artificial habitat, but a secret, and controversial, agenda guides her project.