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Claudia Rankine’s latest autobiographical work, “Triage,” asks how best to effect change in the world.

The Italian best seller “All That Is Left of Life” is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980.

A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.

Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. “Voices From the Kitchen” highlights workers who get far less attention.

In Fiona Mozley’s novel “Awake Awake,” a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas.

Paul Yoon’s deeply moving novel “Etna” explores the aftermath of war with an unconventional narrator.

As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.