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In Julie Flett’s “Let’s Go! haw êkwa!” and Kirsten Cappy and Yaya Gentille’s “Kende! Kende! Kende!” going is just the beginning of a whole new world.

In the last year, museums, book festivals, arts journals and other organizations have experienced bitter discord over what qualifies as tolerable speech about the conflict and its combatants.

Percival Everett’s “James” is the favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.

In his novel “States of Emergency,” Chris Knapp doesn’t just tighten the distance between our inner lives and the world around us; he erases it.

Recent books by Minsoo Kang, Margaret Killjoy and James S.A. Corey.

Our columnist on new books by David McCloskey, Sarah Sawyer and Ragnar Jónasson.

“It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She thanks her own mother for the gift of Margaret Atwood.

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan’s pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood.

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.