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Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird’s satirical novel, “The Nimbus,” strains for the heavenly.

In “Make It Ours,” Robin Givhan tells the story of the designer’s short, historic career.

Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe’s licentious, ultraliberal capital.

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.

In Leila Mottley’s new book a group of young outcast mothers band together to support one another.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.

In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.

8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.