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A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.

In “Correction,” Ben Austen investigates a system meant to promote rehabilitation, and reward prisoners who change, but that no longer seems to work the way it was intended.

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance.

Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent.

“Crook Manifesto,” set in the 1970s, finds the “Harlem Shuffle” protagonist Ray Carney drawn back into the game in order to score Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter.

“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.

In her searching new novel, Jazmina Barrera threads together loss, needlework and the hypnotic coming-of-age tale of three Mexican teenagers.

In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb shows that our dependence on highways and freeways is an environmental concern as well as a social one.

R. Crumb’s underground comics were instrumental in shaping the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond, Dan Nadel shows in an exemplary new biography.