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

“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.

Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter, and the right utensils.

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.