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In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.

In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.

Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.

Vincenzo Latronico captures his generation’s desire for an exquisite lifestyle — and pokes fun at it.

A prolific British writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.

In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.

A prolific writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.

A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.