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The second novel by the author of “The Nix” follows a young Chicago couple’s trajectory from pre-internet optimism to 21st-century ennui.

In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles.

In her eighth novel, “The Wren, the Wren,” Anne Enright gives voice to a daughter and granddaughter who fend for themselves after their patriarch’s abandonment.

His children’s book, “Just Because,” follows a best-selling memoir, “Greenlights,” which also drew from the actor’s musings and life lessons.

In “Glitter and Concrete,” Elyssa Maxx Goodman traces the emergence of drag in the early 1900s, its descent underground after the Depression and its 1980s renaissance, spurred by club culture.

Hannah Stowe grew up in coastal Wales, dreaming of a life on the ocean. Her memoir, “Move Like Water,” recounts how she pursued her passion.

There are strikes, culture wars, actual wars, and the world is on fire. But there is still culture.

“The Wolves of Eternity” wrestles with conflicting worldviews in a tale of intersecting lives.

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist.