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“Writing for kids had long been an ambition of mine, but until recently I didn’t know it had long been an ambition.”

Prudence Peiffer’s “The Slip” is a group biography of six visual artists and the work they created on the edge of Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s.

Jonny Steinberg tells the story of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a moment when a new generation is reassessing their legacies.

“In the Blood” traces how an engineer and a salesman took on military leaders and Big Pharma to get a revolutionary clotting agent to those in dire need.

With a book-rating law set to take effect in September, a group of booksellers, along with publishers and authors, filed suit to argue that it is unconstitutional.

In “Theoderic the Great,” the historian Hans-Ulrich Wiemer dissects the rule of the Goth king who nurtured Roman culture and impressed Machiavelli.

In his new story collection, “Disruptions,” Steven Millhauser reveals the bizarre within the mundane.

In his memoir, Andrew Leland discovers that slowly losing one’s sight offers a special understanding of vision — and its limits.

Like “Nobody’s Fool” and “Everybody’s Fool,” “Somebody’s Fool” is set in a fictional town with lots of problems.

First published in 1967, “Don’t Look at Me Like That” follows a young woman from her unpopular teenage years to uncertain adulthood.