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In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled.

Two new books consider how the country’s obsession with firearms has become an existential threat.

New novels from Tommy Orange and Kristin Hannah; memoirs from Kara Swisher and Leslie Jamison; a biography of Medgar and Myrlie Evers — and more.

In “Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame,” Olivia Ford whips up a sweet confection about a septuagenarian cook with reality TV dreams.

In her second novel, “Come and Get It,” Kiley Reid uses chatty college students to make substantive statements about consumerism.

He wrote lyrical poetry and novels about life in North Carolina’s Appalachian Piedmont and was considered the South’s “premier contemporary person of letters.”

Deborah Jowitt’s “Errand Into the Maze” revels in the artistry of the dance legend, while downplaying the messy choices in her marathon career.

He won two Pulitzer Prizes by transforming accounts of doctors at work into in-depth, narrative articles that read like dramatic short stories.

Nearly six decades ago, a German-born photographer, Evelyn Hofer, created beautifully crafted shots of the city and its people.

He oversaw a boom in the format beginning in the 1960s, turning out best sellers like “Jaws,” “The Exorcist” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”