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‘The Power Law’ Is a Funder-Friendly Look at the World of Venture Capital

Guns, Race, Abortion: Jennifer Haigh’s New Novel Humanizes Hot-Button Topics

How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China

Like Riding a Tilt-a-Whirl Manned by a Sadist

A Palpably Seductive Search for a Grimoire of Sex Magic

The Lives of Black Women, at Home and Abroad

New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’

12 New Books Coming in February

Want to Be a Writer? Get Your Training as a Wedding Planner.

It Started as a Romantic Idyll. It Ended With a Stack of Corpses.

‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer

The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next

A Border Novel Depicts the Haunting Landscapes of the ‘Disappeared’

These Stories Will Defy All Your Expectations

They Left a Broken U.S. for Outer Space. Now They’re Coming Back.

Striver, Burnout, Lover, Scrub: A Debut Novelist Lays It Bare

‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel

‘Eating to Extinction’ Is a Celebration of Rare Foods and a Warning About the Future

Edmund White’s New Novel Is About a Husband’s Affair With Edmund White

How a Nostalgic Novel About Spain’s Heartland Joined the Political Fray

Weike Wang’s Antisocial Novel, ‘Joan Is Okay’

Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America

Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect

Reckoning With Joan Didion, the Archpriestess of Cool

These Old Hands Have Written New Best Sellers

In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success

Did John F. Kennedy and the Democrats Steal the 1960 Election?

Before He Died, the Writer Roberto Calasso Had the Old Testament on His Mind

A Strong New Lead in ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’

Steve Jenkins, 69, Dies; His Children’s Books Brought Science to Life

Bernardine Evaristo Recalls a Life on the Outside

A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy

Terry Teachout, Arts Critic With a Wide Range, Is Dead at 65

Newly Published, From Che Guevara to Sapiens

Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor

The Girl Detective Goes Digital

How Germans Reconciled Themselves to Defeat After World War II

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist

Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler

Newly Published, From Art Criminals to Sentient Fungi

Remembering When It Snowed … in Hawaii

F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts

¿Cuál es el mejor libro de los últimos 125 años? Le pedimos a los lectores que lo decidan

What Role Do Emotions Play in the Way Our Brains Work?

Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s

Norman Mailer Book to Be Released by Skyhorse

A Gothic Novel Haunted by Nine Lives Over Nine Decades

A Novel Punctures the Fantasy of Post-Racial Society

Tackling the Enduring Mysteries of Dante’s Life

A Debut Novel About Friendship, Family and Other Ties That Bind