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In “The Bishop and the Butterfly,” Michael Wolraich tells the story of the sensational true crime that dominated headlines and helped topple Tammany Hall.

Alexis Wright, an Indigenous Australian author, writes epic novels in which many voices clamor to be heard.

“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .

“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .

In Isabel Waidner’s new novel, “Corey Fah Does Social Mobility,” a struggling writer gets pulled into a surreal, multidimensional quest for a coveted literary prize.

“Ordinary Human Failings,” a new novel by the Irish writer Megan Nolan, is a fierce and relentless account of characters trapped by circumstance and tragedy.

In her debut novel, “Redwood Court,” DéLana R.A. Dameron begins with an innocuous question: “What am I made of?”

She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.

A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.