In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.

In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.

“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story.

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.

The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

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A novel set on a US college campus, focusing on a course in stand-up comedy, with powerful scenes

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Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.