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In Cristina Rivera Garza’s novel “Death Takes Me,” a professor becomes both witness and suspect in a gruesome killing spree.

In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries.

Omar El Akkad considers American and European responses to mass suffering in his new book.

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.

The famous Baltimore Orioles manager gets a vivid new biography, the book equivalent of “a screaming triple into the left field corner.”

Her story collection is about the thorny conundrums of being alive.

Our columnist on the month’s new releases.

Our columnist on the month’s new releases.

In “The Secret Public,” Jon Savage traces how music helped popularize queer culture, from the 1950s through the heyday of disco.

After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.