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A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.

In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.

The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.

As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking.”

An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.

In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.