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Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.
In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.
How the creator of “The Lowdown” and “Reservation Dogs” is telling the stories of America with a little help from his friends, family and heroes.
A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.
In her latest book, “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters considers the seemingly neutral background of daily life.
Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.
Before John Berendt wrote his classic “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” he trained his keen eye on men’s wear and manners in a long-running Esquire column.
Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.
Making a book of my dad’s train photos shifted my gaze away from all that he was losing.
Mo Crist has three family goals, but financing them is a tricky proposition in an expensive city like New York.
Her 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.
In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.
A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.