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Miranda July is experimenting again — on the page and in her life.

In “A Life Impossible,” the former N.F.L. player opens up about outliving his life expectancy — the challenges, loneliness and moments of joy.

Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.

A maid resists her employers; citizens resist their country.

The novel “American Abductions” captures the effects of U.S. immigration policy with the expansive reach of art.

The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie indebted to the musician.

Elise Juska takes readers back to the summer of 2021. The question is, do we want to go there?

Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders” runs from 2040 to 2014, showing how a cast of unsettled characters arrived at their current predicament.

In Fiona Warnick’s cozy coming-of-age novel, an aimless college graduate finds an unconventional way to process her difficult transition into adulthood.

He wrote a popular series of books revolving around a hunchbacked detective, Shardlake, whose troubles echo the author’s experiences of childhood bullying.