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Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.

Her debut novel taps into a microgeneration’s blurring of performance and reality.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s new book, “Something We Said,” is at once a memoir and a history of a racial slur.

In “They All Fall in Love at the End,” a young Black woman navigates taboo attractions and a contentious political environment while working toward a creative writing degree.

In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.

In “Drayton and Mackenzie,” two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.

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Kate Milford’s cozy mystery is set at an abandoned amusement park, while Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer’s horror satire unfolds at a malevolent sleepaway camp.

In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.