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Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.

Tae Keller’s new novel, “When Tomorrow Burns,” offers reassuring answers to the question, “What do you do when your biggest fear comes true?”

Merlin Holland has spent decades dismantling the myths that grew up around his grandfather. He hopes his new book may finally settle the record.

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Memoirs from the front lines capture the high-octane pace, roller coaster stakes and unforgettable personalities of emergency medicine.

A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe retraces the secret life of a 19-year-old Londoner who fell in with a gangster underworld.

Dean Young’s posthumous collection, “Creature Feature,” applies his characteristically giddy sense of unraveling to his own life and ill health.

His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.

A Vietnam veteran-turned-academic historian, he drew acclaim for portraying conflicts from the perspectives of generals as well as grunts on all sides, both in Vietnam and in World War II.

For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical, which has shifted to the queer ballroom scene.