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In Gabrielle Zevin’s novel, two video game designers chase love IRL

‘Invisible Things’ is a science fiction novel with an eye on the now

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A Medieval Dramedy Sheathed in Magic, and the Absurd

Building Back Better — One Community at a Time

The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer

6 works of historical fiction highlight resilience amid war

Sisters Divided by China’s Divisions

Nutcrackers, Sadism and Accounting

New books delve into Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year evolution

New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

James Joyce is on my summer reread list. Also, Colette.

Newly Published, From Teenage D.J.s to the Pope

James Patterson Apologizes for Saying White Writers Face a ‘Form of Racism’

‘Gone Girl,’ a decade later: How does it read?

What About the Men?

Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P.

John Merriman, Eminent Historian of France, Is Dead at 75

The Very Human Pleasure of Being Read To

Two Men of the Jungle Meet in Herzog’s First Novel

When a Night on the Town Means Drinking, Dancing and Death

It’s Not Just the Story of Drag in Brooklyn, It’s the Story of America

Spring Awakening

New in Paperback: ‘Sexual Justice’ and ‘Last Call’

Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation

Sloane Crosley’s ‘Cult Classic’ takes aim at start-up culture

A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together

Once a Literary Snob, Chris Pavone Learned From the Experts

The Problem With Surviving? The Next 30 Years. In Florida.

‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene

From Iceland, a Nobel winner’s rediscovered masterpiece

James Patterson shares his formula for success. It’s pretty simple.

Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death.

Oxford Quartet: The Women Who Took On the Philosophical Establishment

In Small-Town Maine, Things Are More Sinister Than They Seem

An Engaged Woman Sees the Ghosts of Relationships Past

A Memoir of Friendship and Death in a Vacation Idyll

Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill.

Concussed, Kidnapped, Cursed: Women on the Run