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In Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “Almost Life,” a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs.

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A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life.

Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”

A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.

Our columnist on three sparkling new romances.

In “Playmakers,” Michael Kimmel traces, and celebrates, the immigrant roots of the American toy industry. (Batteries not included.)

As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.

In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.

Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.