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Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel “In Tongues” unfurls in the Manhattan art world at the turn of the millennium.

In Garth Risk Hallberg’s new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.

In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.

Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.

In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.

In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.

In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.