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Donal Ryan’s new novel focuses on a small community trying to leave behind years of economic woes.

Beyond disclosures about his sexuality and marriage, the media mogul’s memoir mostly serves up goodies for fans of Hollywood name-dropping and infighting.

In “Apple in China,” Patrick McGee argues that by training an army of manufacturers in a “ruthless authoritarian state,” the company has created an existential vulnerability for the entire world.

“This World of Tomorrow,” based on the actor’s 2017 short story collection, is scheduled to begin performances in October at the Shed.

The romance author Ashley Poston recommends books bursting with quaint charm, sizzling banter and plenty of heart.

A neoconservative who fervidly opposed Communism and the fundamentalist regime in Iran, he wrote many books and articles, some of whose theories were later discredited.

Madeleine Thien’s time-warping historical novel “The Book of Records” collapses centuries and geographies in an ambitious family saga.

In “Bear Witness,” Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.

Now in its 25th year, The Dresden Files and its author have survived the darkness, fictional and otherwise.

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