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In “Vigil,” an oil tycoon on his deathbed receives a visit from an angel.

Our critic on four excellent new novels.

An artist knocked off her path by a manipulative professor is at the center of Larissa Pham’s spare and troubling new book, “Discipline.”

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

The pop culture critic discusses his new book about the sport and its place in American culture.

Like the flakes themselves, no two are the same.

The author Janie Chang recommends novels about people who push back against the expectations of their time.

“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).

Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism.