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A once-beloved Kentucky high school team fights to regain glory.

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.

Christoph Irmscher studies the contributions and contradictions of the pioneering scientist Louis Agassiz.

A reader responds to a recent view of Jami Attenberg’s “Middlesteins.”

A reader responds to a recent review of James Owen Weatherall’s “Physics of Wall Street.”

Readers respond to a recent review of Joyce Johnson’s “The Voice Is All.”

The author of “Insane City” spent his childhood reading “Richie Rich,” “Archie” and “Batman” comics: “pretty much anything unlikely to inspire intellectual development.”

A translation of the famously knotty James Joyce novel has sold 8,000 copies, thanks in part to an innovative marketing campaign.

Ms. Poehler, the "Saturday Night Live" alumna and star of "Parks and Recreation," is writing a memoir in the form of "an illustrated, nonlinear diary" for the It Books imprint of HarperCollins.

"The Private War of J.D. Salinger," a biography of the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," draws on interviews with more than 150 people who worked with and knew Salinger or were influenced by his work.