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An Oil Tanker Is Sabotaged. The Investigator Dies. Now What?

Storms, Bombs, Contagions, Pandemics and Pandemonium

Family Saga. Capitalist Satire. Climate Thriller. Debut Novel.

The Golden Age of Air Travel Gets a Reality Check

Slice-of-Life Stories Shot Through With Dark Humor

The Double Bind of the Feminine Ideal

New in Paperback: ‘Halfway Home’ and ‘The Code Breaker’

John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor

Adriana Trigiani Keeps All of Edna Ferber’s Books on Her Shelves

14 New Books Coming in May

The Secrets of an American Fortune, Told Four Ways

Sara Novic Writes About Sex, Drugs and Sign Language

Stories That Survive the Horrors of War

She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality.

Side by Side With (Bernie) Sanders

3 great new audiobooks for your walk, commute or chill-out time

Welcome to Sullivan’s, Where Everybody Knows Your Name

‘His Effectiveness Did Not Go Unnoticed’: On the Radical Politics of Walter Rodney

Tina Brown’s royal revelations spare no one, especially Meghan Markle

Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis

Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head

People Cope With Tragedy by Writing Poems. Maybe They Shouldn’t.

‘Insomnia’ may give you insomnia, but it’s worth it

New Memoirs Bristling with Wit, Warmth and Spiky Intelligence

From ‘Kaikeyi’ to Cartography, Audiobooks That Make You Question What You Know

They Populated Louisiana. Against Their Will.

Don’t Call Her ‘Baby.’ At 62, Jennifer Grey is Taking the Lead.

Down on the Black Bayou, a Family History Repeats Itself

The Man Who Made Thinking Sexy

Dreaming of France? Two new mystery novels will feed your fantasies.

In ‘10 Steps to Nanette,’ Hannah Gadsby Moves From Stage to Page

‘Seek and Hide’ Grapples With the Complexity of the Right to Privacy

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way

Samantha Hunt is haunted by books left unfinished

Liana Finck Imagines a Female God, in Her Own Image

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier: A tale of love and madness

Delia Ephron writes rom-coms. Then her life turned into one.

Gardening, Nancy Drew for Adults and a Contract Killer

Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending

Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness

Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’

12 New Books We Recommend This Week

Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize

What Can We Learn From Celebrity Couples of Yore?

When an Advice Columnist Tries to Fix Her Daughters’ Issues

In ‘Atomic Anna,’ the Nuclear Disaster in Chernobyl Launches a Time-Traveling Adventure

‘Memphis’ Is a Rhapsodic Hymn to Black Women

Love and Scandal, Buried for Years at an Elite Boarding School

With ‘Bittersweet,’ Can Susan Cain Replicate the Success of ‘Quiet’?

Lygia Fagundes Telles, Popular Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 98