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Justin Torres’s genre-defying new book, “Blackouts,” explores what it means to be erased and how to persist after being wiped away.

New works of nonfiction and fiction transcend stereotypes, and connect a wealth of ideas and facts for young readers.

Mary Gabriel’s biography is as thorough as its subject is disciplined. But in relentlessly defending the superstar, where’s the party?

Published in Japan in 1988, this novel follows a 19-year-old daughter in a happy family who starts to wonder if they are not really hers.

The Nobel Prize winner writes about characters trying to transcend their worldly lives.

“Raw Dog,” by the comedian Jamie Loftus, is an investigative memoir that’s part gonzo travelogue and part takedown of the factory farming system.

In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.

This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.