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Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.

Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.

With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.

The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.

In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.

He created one of the first photo books about the Vietnam War — the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” he called it — and later documented his grandfather’s struggle with dementia.

Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.