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“The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, examines a plagiarism case and the place of African literature in the West.

The new book by Adam Nagourney offers an in-depth look at how a newspaper navigated reporting challenges, financial crises and the transition to the digital era.

In Lisa M. Hamilton’s new book, a Hmong refugee turns a patch of arid farmland into a kingdom.

Ben Fountain’s new novel, “Devil Makes Three,” is a study of opportunism and deception during a political crisis.

“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.

In her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” the famously private “Scandal” star opens up about the family secret that made her question whether she was playing the lead role in her own life.

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life.

Her new novel, “Night Watch,” is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia mental institution.

A prolific feminist turns her sights to the opposite sex.

Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.