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Yarros drew on her experience with chronic illness and life in a military family to write “Fourth Wing,” a huge best seller that spawned a spicy fantasy series.

Yarros drew on her experience with chronic illness and life in a military family to write “Fourth Wing,” a huge best seller that spawned a spicy fantasy series.

In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.

Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”

Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire.

In 44 years at Knopf, she shepherded history books that won a raft of Pulitzers — seven in all — as well as Bancrofts, although one recipient set off a furious debate.

One of the few women at the top of her field in book and magazine publishing, she was also a champion of her fellow professionals.

Our critic recommends “Hermit of Peking,” by Hugh Trevor-Roper, and “A Morbid Taste for Bones,” by Ellis Peters.

Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, “A Nearby Country Called Love,” explores the complexities of relationships, sexuality and cultural norms in modern Iran.

Max Marshall’s “Among the Bros” investigates a multimillion-dollar crime network among fraternity brothers at the College of Charleston.