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He collaborated on a textbook so unsparing in its review of the state’s grim past that it was barred from schools almost as soon as it appeared.

In “The Secret History of Bigfoot,” John O’Connor explores a legend that refuses to die — and his own place in a disenchanted world.

An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

Veera Hiranandani’s “Amil and the After” and Saadia Faruqi’s “The Partition Project” show that the rending of the subcontinent is as relevant and heartbreaking as ever.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.

When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

The success of his novel “House Made of Dawn,” the first work by a Native American to win a Pulitzer, inspired a wave of Native literature.

The books offer the promise of an ending where all questions are answered and some sort of justice is done.