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Katie Kitamura on "Intimacies," her new novel: "It’s a plural for a reason, which is that there’s a lot of different kinds of intimacies in the novel, and a lot of them are not desired, they’re imposed on the narrator."https://nyti.ms/3CqdWLf 

“The State Must Provide,” by Adam Harris, is about more than inequities in higher education, our reviewer writes. It is a meditation on racism and inequality in America.https://nyti.ms/3xuJcoA 

The antigovernment arguments of reformers like Ralph Nader and Jane Jacobs, a new book suggests, paved the way for Ronald-Reagan conservatism.https://nyti.ms/3CD6Bbo 

For the novelist Alaa Al Aswany, 2011 was the year Egyptians awoke to their own agency. His novel "The Republic of False Truths" considers that awakening through multiple perspectives.https://nyti.ms/3jDhgKl 

The first story in Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's new collection, "American Estrangement," takes a spin through the 1990s: the reign of "Seinfeld," Michael Jordan and crack cocaine.https://nyti.ms/3jHHsmV 

In "Playlist for the Apocalypse," the weight of American history and of mortality.https://nyti.ms/3fLVRgU 

Andrew Sullivan's new collection, "Out on a Limb," traces his arguments and battles across 32 tumultuous years.https://nyti.ms/3jxl53z 

FFWACK, KFFUD, POW. As the late John Lewis's "Run: Book One" demonstrates, the hostility that has driven so much of our nation’s history, including the civil rights movement, is well suited to the graphic form.https://nyti.ms/3jCNvJH 

What happens after graduation? Who will remember you after you die? What's the best way to find love in Rome? Four new international novels provide intriguing answers.https://nyti.ms/3lOwqip 

Like those masters of the psychological thriller, Patricia Highsmith and Margaret Millar, Virginia Feito's debut novel, "Mrs. March," is pervaded with unease, anxiety and madness.https://nyti.ms/3yETROT 

“Ramadan Ramsey” is a novel about a young boy who seems destined for a life of disappointment but proves that a positive attitude can lead to great rewards.https://nyti.ms/2VK87qT 

In Leila Slimani's war novel, the woman is the hero.https://nyti.ms/3lOWQAL 

When Julie Klam set out to write a book about her grandmother's legendary first cousins, the four Morris sisters, she discovered that 90 percent of what she'd been told was false.https://nyti.ms/3ivqfxL 

Andrew Bacevich has been a longtime critic of how Washington has conducted foreign policy, and his latest book, "After the Apocalypse," may be his strongest critique yet.https://nyti.ms/3AlcHLy 

Congressman John Lewis's new graphic memoir series, "Run" — mostly completed before his death — picks up where his celebrated "March" trilogy (the only comic ever to win the National Book Award) left off, after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.https://nyti.ms/3jW7O55 

“In some African countries, young people are being told they shouldn’t speak a foreign language, that it’s the language of white Westerners, and I find that disgusting,” the French-Moroccan novelist Leila Slimani says. “A language belongs to no one.”https://nyti.ms/3lITE9C 

The downfall of Ezra Pound.https://nyti.ms/3fDC5Ef