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The former Red Sox manager Terry Francona is at No. 2 on the hardcover nonfiction list with a scorched-earth memoir taking aim at the team owners who showed him the door.

Ali Smith weaves fact and fiction in these interconnected essays, whose narrator is haunted — literally — by a former lover.

Michael Dean’s novel imagines the bawdy, philanthropic life of the painter William Hogarth.

George Saunders’s stories offer a close look at life’s dark aspects, but don’t succumb to them.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Ian Buruma’s forthcoming book is about the months following the end of World War II.

In China, “bureaucracy lit” cuts the red tape for the civil-service-minded.

A look at today's buzz in the book and publishing world.