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In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.

The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.

In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.

The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.

Barbara Kingsolver’s debut, and a bad seed’s beginnings.

An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.

Jessica Shattuck’s “Last House” dips into the cultural intrigues of 20th-century America, but keeps its nose surprisingly clean.

Inspired by her own family’s past, Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History” unfolds over seven decades and two wars.

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try.

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.

The best-selling author of dark fantasy novels for Y.A. and adult audiences discusses her career and her stand-alone new historical fantasy, “The Familiar.”

It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.

For The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

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

Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.

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