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In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life.

In “Sad Tiger,” the French author Neige Sinno analyzes her memories of being abused as a child, alongside literature about incest and pedophilia.

In “Heartwood,” when an experienced hiker named Valerie vanishes, other women must crack the case.

Alex Dimitrov’s fifth collection, “Ecstasy,” offers a rollicking paean to pleasure.

In “The Usual Desire to Kill,” Camilla Barnes finds the humor in a daughter’s aggravating visits to her aging parents at their run-down home in rural France.

Our critic on the month’s best releases.

Sarah Snook, camera operators and other crew members bring to life multitudes on Broadway via an elaborate synthesis of live action, live video and recorded video.

The band’s singer and bassist recounts his personal struggles and the dramatic ins and outs of the trio’s history in a new memoir, “Fahrenheit-182.”

It’s called “Doggerel” for a reason: “These are poems that speak to everyone, that pun and riff and make fun of themselves a bit as they reveal something about the world.”

One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.