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In “Talk to Me,” Rich Benjamin investigates his family’s harrowing past to better understand the troubles that continued to plague them.

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

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In Callan Wink’s new novel, two brothers struggling to make ends meet are forced to turn to shady ventures.

These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kids’ lives.

The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm.

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.