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He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.

“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure.

Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.

In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.

It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.

In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.

Feldman, who wrote in “Unorthodox” about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.

In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.

His new book, “There’s Always This Year,” is a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio.

Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”