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Kids’ Graphic Novels That Turn the Superhero Genre on Its Head

Grégoire Bouillier, Augusten Burroughs, Arthur H : la chronique « poches » de Véronique Ovaldé

Philip Pullman’s New ‘Dark Materials’ Book Brims With Familiar Delights

‘Everyone Needs a Buddy’

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: A Book Brings a Black Hero to Life

‘Square Dancing Belongs Somewhere Far Away … Like the 1800s’

In Times of Crisis, Life-Affirming Picture Books

Bandes dessinées : nos dix coups de cœur de l’automne

What Books Are Good for at the End of the World

A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars

A Novel Follows Lives Scattered in the California Desert

If you’re thinking of a drastic lifestyle change, ‘Off Grid Life’ will feed your fantasy (or kill it)

We’ll still be divided after Trump. But the fault lines will move.

Four presidents who put Virginia’s stamp on early America

October paperback releases: 14 books to read now

They survived World War II — but were left stranded in Germany

Familiar Fauci anecdotes, told with a Brooklyn accent

Did Stalin’s rise to power foretell the butchery that came next?

Reconfinement : les librairies n’échappent pas à la fermeture

New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’

‘Wagner’s Music is Bombastic and Boring’ and Other Letters to the Editor

« Durer », de Pierre Caye : la chronique « philosophie » de Roger-Pol Droit

James Beard’s outsize appetites and carefully hidden secrets

« Des sourires et des hommes », de Marie-Françoise Salès : souriez ! Vous êtes humains !

‘The Cold Millions,’ Jess Walter’s celebration of forgotten heroes, is one of the most captivating novels of the year

16 New Books to Watch For in November

Getting Lost Helped V.E. Schwab Find the Idea for Her 20th Book

Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre

Adonis, Bill Bryson, Irène Frain, Sam Shepard… Les brèves critiques du « Monde des livres »

The Best of the Kennedys?

Le sourire, une famille algérienne, l’ultime enquête de Bernie Gunther… Nos coups de cœur littéraires

Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86

Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath

In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend

Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

/For Halloween: a critic’s pick of macabre treats for your library

Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life

Visions of New Worlds, Both Hopeful and Nightmarish

Daniel Menaker, Book Editor Who Wrote With Wit, Dies at 79

An Expedition Deep Into an Underworld of Online Hate

Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ is a tender look at modern family life

This Memoirist Got By With a Little Help From Strangers

When It Comes to Aging Parents, Information and Solidarity Are Key

Jess Walter’s New Novel Revisits a Turbulent Era Much Like Our Own

New & Noteworthy, From Joe Biden to a Rock Novel in Verse

In Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial,’ a Young Gay Couple Is Divided by Race, Class and Culture

When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children

The Strand Calls for Help, and Book Lovers Answer

Some Advice About Ghosts and Ghosting, From a Paranormal Investigator