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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.

Long a favorite to receive the award, Fosse has found acclaim for work that explores mortality and religion, and radiates serenity.

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

In “Brutalities: A Love Story,” Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt — and shows herself some compassion.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.