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In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.

Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.

In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.

The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.

Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.

Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.

With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.

The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.

In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.