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In “Madness,” the journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds.

Our romance columnist on four saucy January releases.

As a professor of political science and an author, he displayed a distinctive gift for simplifying the complexities of the American political system.

In “Legacy,” Dr. Uché Blackstock writes about losing her pioneering physician mother and the pervasive health woes of Black Americans.

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status.

“The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels,” a modern take on the epistolary novel, is hard to put down.

Calvin Trillin collects many of his inimitable profiles and essays about journalism in “The Lede.”

“Disillusioned,” by Benjamin Herold, follows five families living in the burbs — where they contend with struggling schools, degraded infrastructure, poverty and discrimination.

He helped found an avant-garde movement fusing art and prose and was outspoken against the invasion of Ukraine. He died after he was hit by a car in Moscow.

In “Martyr!,” the poet Kaveh Akbar turns a grieving young man’s search for meaning into a piercing family saga.