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In “The Original Daughter,” the debut novel by Jemimah Wei, a Singaporean family craters under the weight of ambition, jealousy and things left unsaid.

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator.

In “The Other Side,” the art critic Jennifer Higgie explores artists who found self-expression through different media — and mediums.

With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.”

A new book by the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin plumbs the dubious history of the presidential pardon.

In “The Paris Novel,” Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.

Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining new book, “The Path to Paradise,” tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career.

Kashana Cauley’s novel “The Payback” imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they’re into reiki.

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden.

In “The Peepshow,” Kate Summerscale tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a sensational murder case that rocked 1950s London.