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W.W. Norton

Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

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Dan Solomon's The Fight for Midnight is a coming-of-age novel set in June of 2013, during former Texas state senator Wendy Davis' 13 hour filibuster of an abortion bill. Flux Books/North Star Editions hide caption

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In 'The Fight for Midnight,' a teen boy confronts the abortion debate

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New Directions

Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'

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This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92. Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP hide caption

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'An Amerikan Family' traces the legacy of Tupac Shakur's influential family

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Cormac McCarthy attends the New York premiere of The Road, the film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in 2009. Mark Von Holden/Getty Images For Dimension Films hide caption

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Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89

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Random House

The Catholic Church profited from slavery — 'The 272' explains how

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Paul McCartney's photos of early Beatlemania are in a book and on display in London

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Elizabeth Gilbert is delaying publication of The Snow Forest, a novel set in Russia, after receiving an outpouring of "anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain" from Ukrainian readers who object to releasing any work about Russia. Here, in this photo from September 2010, Gilbert arrives at the European premiere of the film Eat, Pray, Love in Leicester Square, London. Paul Jeffers/AP hide caption

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Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'

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