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In “Theoderic the Great,” the historian Hans-Ulrich Wiemer dissects the rule of the Goth king who nurtured Roman culture and impressed Machiavelli.

In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ideals and real life.

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.

Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading.

Reading Anna Akbari’s memoir of online manipulation, you think you’ve seen it all — then you keep reading.

Bruce Handy, Lisk Feng and Cat Min present shadows for what they are: the non-nefarious interplay of light and dark.

In Jen Silverman’s new novel, “There’s Going to Be Trouble,” two generations of activists wrestle with the errors of the past as they strive to create a more survivable future.

Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.

In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” the novelist Yiyun Li endures the aftermath of unthinkable loss.

In “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” the astronomer C. Renée James writes about what we can learn from the more exotic shapes and sounds in outer space.