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Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

“Lublin,” a novel by Manya Wilkinson, brings together a quest fable and a dark history with disarming humor.

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.

Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.

The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.

An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.

In Lily Meyer’s first novel, “Short War,” love and family ties are tested by a nation’s upheaval.

The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem.”

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.