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In this Sarah Pekkanen’s “Gone Tonight,” a mother’s deceptions set off a deadly game with her adult daughter.

A selection of recently published books.

In “How to Say Babylon,” Safiya Sinclair recalls her ascetic Jamaican upbringing and the literature that opened up her world.

Benjamín Labatut’s novel “The Maniac” examines the dawn of the nuclear age and the brilliant, sometimes troubled minds behind it.

New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power.

A new book argues that the isolation of a pre-social media era helped fuel a fertile Chicago ecosystem for offbeat stand-up comedians.

In “Chinese Menu,” Grace Lin takes readers and eaters on a food tour that dates back to 7000 B.C.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.

What better time than fall to look at academic romances?

“I acted Macbeth for exactly 365 days,” says the actor, whose new memoir is “Making It So.” “The role got into me so deeply it dominated my life at the time and caused me to drink too much alcohol after the performance was over. No other role I have