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In “Birth Control,” Allison Yarrow argues that this country’s male-dominated medical industry prioritizes control instead of the autonomy — and safety — of pregnant patients.

Show the zoologist Bill Schutt what your mouth looks like, and he’ll tell you who you are.

Priscilla Morris’s novel “Black Butterflies” makes the case for art in times of war.

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, fashion and more.

“Black Moses,” by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier.

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.

Justin Torres’s genre-defying new book, “Blackouts,” explores what it means to be erased and how to persist after being wiped away.

In the novel “Blessings,” by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, a gay Nigerian boy works to understand himself in a country that’s increasingly hostile to people like him.

In the novel “Blessings,” by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, a gay Nigerian boy works to understand himself in a country that’s increasingly hostile to people like him.