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Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.

When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.

If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore’s novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas’s tale of an inferior twin.

In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.

In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.

Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.