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Nic Stone, the author of “Dear Martin,” “Chaos Theory” and more, recommends some of her favorite young adult books about mental health.

His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

“Difficult Men,” Brett Martin’s book about the prestige TV boom, has been rereleased in a 10th-anniversary edition. In an interview, he reflects on how TV has changed since he wrote it.

When white employees refused to work in a notorious hospital, Maria Smilios writes in “The Black Angels,” these nurses came to the aid of New Yorkers.

In “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew argues that it’s not the individuals who need “fixing,” it’s their environment.

After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.”

Daniel Mason’s novel “North Woods” is a survey of American history told in a hodgepodge of forms and genres.

In her new novel, “Bright Young Women,” Jessica Knoll shifts our attention from a notorious criminal to the women who died by his hand.

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

Jonathan Raban’s “Father and Son” is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history.