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Miranda July is experimenting again — on the page and in her life.

With a first novel that chronicles a love affair between two young men, 23-year-old Ani Kayode Somtochukwu asserts a commitment to “queer resistance.”

Emily Meggett, the keeper of centuries-old culinary traditions in the Carolinas, has spent her life feeding others. At 89, she shares her kitchen wisdom.

Ryan Busse used to be a prominent figure in the firearm industry. A recent book details his disillusionment as he saw gun culture transform — and has drawn disdain from former allies.

In “Necessary Trouble,” Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s former leader, wrestles with her conservative Southern upbringing, and the unfinished business of the Civil War.

Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees the value in keeping some things to herself.

In the 1975 novel, as Jonathan Dee writes, the gaps between disparate American lives are closed and the veils that keep some invisible to others are dropped.

With “The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir,” Priscilla Gilman, daughter of the theater critic Richard Gilman, joins the ranks of writers whose memoirs examine their famous, and flawed, fathers.

“Who They Was,” an autobiographical novel about life in public housing and prison, is relentlessly bleak. It had to be, the author, Gabriel Krauze, says.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership to improve access to COVID-19 technology, knowledge and clinical data, stressing the fight against the virus must continue.