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Casey McQuiston’s debut proved that queer romance can be a hit. In their latest novel, “The Pairing,” sex doesn’t only sell; it’s also “beautiful and really soul affirming.”

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “The Seventh Veil of Salome,” follows strivers in 1950s Hollywood competing for a place in an industry that does not embrace them.

In her corrective “The Missing Thread,” the classical historian Daisy Dunn paints a fuller picture of the ancient world.

In “The Movement,” Clara Bingham captures the years 1963-73 in the voices of the women who lived it.

In “I Am on the Hit List,” Rollo Romig explores the political world of Gauri Lankesh.

Two new books look at how horses and primates helped each other grow from skittish little mammals to conquerors of the world.

Recognized literary translators — Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them — are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves.

A new book by the former speaker details her clashes with the former president, but it was written before her most recent exercise of political might: helping persuade President Biden to end his re-election bid.

She was already a prominent hostess in the nation’s capital when her uninhibited, best-selling 1973 memoir, “Laughing All the Way,” made her a star.

The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and historian.