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“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.

Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.

In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.

His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.

“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.

“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.

In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.

Austin Kelley gently lampoons high-minded magazines and the fragile men who work at them in his debut novel, “The Fact Checker.”

He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and ’70s, then shifted to become a prominent street photographer.