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Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | NYTimes Book… Read More

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Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” compares the labor struggles of the Industrial Revolution to today’s abusive gig economy. Gavin Mueller | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

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Nic Stone, the author of “Dear Martin,” “Chaos Theory” and more, recommends some of her favorite young adult books about mental health. Nic Stone | NYTimes Books |… Read More

In “Foreign Bodies,” Simon Schama studies pandemics past and present, and how much — and little — we have learned. Simon Winchester | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Daniel Mason’s novel “North Woods” is a survey of American history told in a hodgepodge of forms and genres. Rand Richards Cooper | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s new novel follows a white paper box on a disorienting journey through many hands — none of which can open it. David Szalay | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage. Alexandra Jacobs | NYT… Read More

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In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social… Read More

“The Wolves of Eternity” wrestles with conflicting worldviews in a tale of intersecting lives. Sven Birkerts | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist. Unknown Aut… Read More

From the dark heart of a misguided follower to the young hand of a diarist whose words outlived her, these novels encompass the full spectrum of humanity. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture. Alexandra Alter | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her new memoir, “Exit Interview,” Kristi Coulter details her time working at the company, connecting her experience to the larger history of women’s employment struggle… Read More

In her debut novel, the British actor elaborates on a story told to her by her grandmother. Jessica Francis Kane | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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Mona Awad’s new novel, “Rouge,” indicts the quest to be fairest of them all. Megan O’Grady | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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Her book “Jesus Calling,” written in the voice of Jesus Christ, rose to the top of the Christian publishing best-seller lists. Sequels and spinoffs followed. Clay Risen | NYTim… Read More

Five yearning Tokyo readers get life advice with their borrowed volumes in Michiko Aoyama’s “What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.” Robin Sloan | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

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Our crime columnist recommends four September books. Sarah Weinman | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Inspired by events in East Anglia, England, in 1645, “The Witching Tide,” by Margaret Meyer, evokes the climate of fear and accusation that grips a town with the arrival of a &l&helli…Read More

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief. Lily Meyer | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

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“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional a… Read More

New novels from Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Lauren Groff; Walter Isaacson’s hotly anticipated Elon Musk biography; a history of the AR-15 assault rifle; and much more. The New York… Read More

Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism. Karan Mahajan | NYTi… Read More

A new recording revisits the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s rhetorical strength and disarming humor in a collection of essays, stories and satire. Dipo Faloyin | NYTimes Books | Disclosu… Read More

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Books or beach? In a coastal town, the decision is easy, thanks to artwork by the author of “Blueberries for Sal” and “Make Way for Ducklings.” Elisabeth Egan | NYT… Read More

Rather than treading on sacred ground, Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi’s “Peanuts”-style biography brings Charles M. Schulz and the strip together as one. Jeff Smith |… Read More

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An essay series on American literature and faith. Ayana Mathis | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In “Quiet Street,” Nick McDonell reflects on America’s most entrenched elite and his place within it. Jonathan Dee | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Christine Mangan’s “The Continental Affair,” a cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s Europe, evokes Gauloises, orange blossoms and corner cafes. Leah Greenblatt | NYTimes Book… Read More

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Kate Winkler Dawson’s audiobook original reveals the origins of a society of occult-obsessed supernaturalists that included Dickens, Doyle, Yeats and more. Audrey Clare Farley | NYTi… Read More

Ilene Cooper’s “This Boy” shows how the grayness of John’s and Paul’s childhoods fed into the explosion that was just around the corner. Nick Hornby | NYTimes… Read More

Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own. Shreya Chattopadhyay | NY… Read More

As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs. Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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Before they were bursting into song, some literary characters were bursting off the pages of popular books. Can you identify the sources of these five theatrical adaptations? J. D. Biersdo… Read More

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones. Dwight Garner | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In a new book, Clare Carlisle considers the powerful partnership between the Victorian novelist and the de facto husband who tended her career. Alexandra Jacobs | NYTimes Books | Disclosur… Read More

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New books by Juno Dawson, Emma Mieko Candon and Alexander Darwin. Amal El-Mohtar | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In Lauren Beukes’s surreal new book, “Bridge,” a young woman embarks on a metaphysical quest to find her family before a fearsome hunter does. Ainslie Hogarth | NYTimes B… Read More

In Catherine Chidgey’s seventh novel, “Pet,” a motherless 12-year-old girl falls under the intoxicating spell of a mysterious teacher at her Catholic school in New Zealand… Read More

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“Hangman,” by Maya Binyam, follows the narrator on a disorienting trip back to his native country. Katie Kitamura | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In “Anansi’s Gold,” Yepoka Yeebo delves into the origins of a venerable scam — and the man who got away with it for decades. Anakwa Dwamena | NYTimes Books | Disclo… Read More

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In “Flirting With Danger,” Janet Wallach tells the story of Marguerite Harrison, who traded a life of privilege to become America’s first international female spy. Chloe… Read More

Susan Casey has long been enchanted by the deep ocean. For her book “The Underworld,” she finally got to visit that unforgiving landscape herself. Alexandra Alter | NYTimes Boo… Read More

In his new story collection, Jamel Brinkley investigates the impact of seeing and being seen. Mateo Askaripour | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Daniel Kraus’s “Whalefall,” a scuba diver, inadvertently swallowed alive by a 60-ton sperm whale, tries to escape. Sarah Lyall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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These novels remind us of old-fashioned human connections that can’t be severed, for better or worse. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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In “Theoderic the Great,” the historian Hans-Ulrich Wiemer dissects the rule of the Goth king who nurtured Roman culture and impressed Machiavelli. Jamie Kreiner | NYTimes Book… Read More

Test your literary knowledge with this short trivia quiz. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In his new story collection, “Disruptions,” Steven Millhauser reveals the bizarre within the mundane. Dwight Garner | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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A museum in England devoted to the best-selling children’s author, who died in 1990, condemned his antisemitic views. Derrick Bryson Taylor | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

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