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In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.

Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.

Megha Majumdar’s new novel follows two disastrously entangled lives in a famine-ridden future.

Bedlam’s sharply irreverent production of Emily Breeze’s comedy, a riff on “Pride and Prejudice,” has period dress, contemporary vernacular and a magnetic Mrs. Bennet.

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.

A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

“Spunk,” a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.

The writer mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, those exchanges are being brought to life onscreen.

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war.