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In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.

“Crook Manifesto,” set in the 1970s, finds the “Harlem Shuffle” protagonist Ray Carney drawn back into the game in order to score Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter.

The title character in Jon Klassen’s new chapter book, “The Skull,” is the personification of his unique brand of expressionless humor.

While researching her best-selling book, “White House by the Sea,” Kate Storey inquired about dessert that unites us.

“A collection of these issues would undoubtedly be my favorite book that no one has heard of,” says the author of the memoir “Stay True,” one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2022. “If you are reading this, please write me!”

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

In “The Militia House,” by John Milas, an abandoned building in Afghanistan captivates and terrifies the Marines stationed nearby.

His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.

New short fiction by Agustina Bazterrica, Joyce Carol Oates, Nishanth Injam and Kathleen Alcott.

“Blight,” by Emily Monosson, chronicles the threats fungal pathogens pose to humans, animals and plants as the world’s most devastating agents of disease.