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The artist Mosie Romney envisions new releases by Major Jackson, Ayana Mathis and more.

The show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel.

“Taming the Street,” by Diana B. Henriques, and “The Problem of Twelve,” by John Coates, tell the story of America’s powerful and unwieldy financial institutions.

In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren Grush details the basics of training and the challenges of sexism without lionizing her heroines.

In Diana Evans’s new novel, “A House for Alice,” a woman who immigrated to Britain for marriage must decide whether or not to return to her country of origin after her husband dies.

Groff works on several novels at once, composes in longhand, and wrote a draft of her new book, “The Vaster Wilds,” in iambic pentameter “just for fun.”

Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.

In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.

Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”