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In “The Anthropologists,” Aysegul Savas celebrates the “unremarkable grace” of a couple’s ordinary days. It’s enchanting.

An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

For the midcentury New York intellectuals, Ronnie Grinberg writes in a new book, a particular kind of machismo was de rigueur — even for women.

With “Husbands & Lovers,” Beatriz Williams delivers a multigenerational yarn and a memorable ending.

She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.

Andrea Skinner said in The Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.

“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story.

Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.

A philandering father; a literary affair.