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A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.

Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail.

In a lively and sometimes heated argument, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to rule for parents with religious objections to storybooks with gay and transgender characters.

In “Matriarch,” a memoir out Tuesday, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles’s mom reveals she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.

The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.

Louise Hegarty’s novel, “Fair Play,” nods to classic 1920s detective fiction, with a twist.

“Gabriële” considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others.

In “Sister, Sinner,” Claire Hoffman tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Aimee Semple McPherson, whose mysterious life made headlines in the 1920s.