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Ben Fountain’s new novel, “Devil Makes Three,” is a study of opportunism and deception during a political crisis.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.

In her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” the famously private “Scandal” star opens up about the family secret that made her question whether she was playing the lead role in her own life.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

Her new novel, “Night Watch,” is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia mental institution.

A prolific feminist turns her sights to the opposite sex.

Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.

Isle McElroy’s second novel, “People Collide,” puts a pair of bored newlyweds in each other’s shoes.

The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

In her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” the famously private “Scandal” star opens up about the family secret that made her question whether she was playing the lead role in her own life.