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A Quarter-Life Crisis Handled With Grace and Guts

Demon Dolls, Lonely Dolls and Sex Dolls

In These Stories, Everyone Wants to Be Somewhere Else

How Well Do You Know Novels Set in New Orleans?

New York City and Its Discontents, in 3 New Books

6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

Pamela Anderson Tells All, Again

Small-Town Affairs

R.F. Kuang Is Curious About Something …

It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now?

Patricia Engel’s Enduring Friendships Always Include Books

Newly Published, From Bottled Wishes to Norman Mailer

Globalization’s Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning

The Thrill of Plot or the Richness of Detail? Try Both.

John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now

Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity

Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic

Closing the Book on Promises to Myself

Aleksandar Hemon Sets a Gay Love Story Amid the Great War

When $20,000 Gets You Exploited in America

6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth

Newly Published, From Myriad Hats to an Iraqi Pomegranate Tree

Can the Country Come to Terms With Its Original Sin?

Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says.

Boston’s ‘Rough Sleepers’ and the Doctor Who Treats Them

Fleeing Slavery in a Top Hat and Cravat

A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers

Life and Much Death in the Amazon

Bret Easton Ellis Is Back to His Regularly Scheduled Programming

Overlooked Black History, in Three New Novels

Jon Meacham Grew Up With Civil War Bullets in His Backyard

Patrick Modiano Says Good Books Make Good People

Newly Published, From Y.A. Novels to Sharks and More

Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’

A New Novel Confronts the Scale and Gravity of Climate Change

A Debut Novel Explores the Complexities of Sudan’s Civil War

Think Screens Stole Our Attention? Medieval Monks Were Distracted Too.

When Downtrodden Women Turn to Murder

Where Adventurous, Curious Women Rule

Floods, Fires and Humidity: How Climate Change Affects Book Preservation

How Does a Family Change After Losing a Child?

6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

Leigh Bardugo Is Wary of Imposing Limits on Young Readers

Read Your Way Through Tokyo

Newly Published, From Triptych Poems to Boston’s Black Workers

This Is Girlhood, Warts and All

In the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Novel, the End of the World Is Not So Bad

‘Terrorist’ — to Whom?