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Newly Published from Young Adult Novels to Political Tumult in Translation

Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One

Building Something Together: Translators Discuss Their Art

Exit Hector Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the Iliad Anew

The Philosophers Who Used Word Puzzles to Understand the World

Translating Tolstoy While Inciting Revolution

Looking Back on a Formative Friendship With Compassion

Of Love Letters Irishmen and Belonging

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before Its Published

Becoming Self-Made Stars in a Secular Age

New England Island Life Meets Spy Thriller? Look No Further.

What Is Love? For This Fractured Family the Answer Is Not So Clear.

How Did a $2 Billion Trove of Art End Up in a Random Attic in France?

Newly Published From Susan Sontag to the Black Working Class

Bookforum is Returning Months After its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World

Going Bankrupt in the Name of Efficiency

Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?

Sex Identity and the Eternal Anxieties of Growing Up

In Clémence Michallons Debut a Serial Killer Deceives an Entire Town

On Being Black and American Overseas

Saskia Hamilton Poet Who Edited Another Poets Letters Dies at 56

A Cult Hiding in Plain Sight Amid the New York Brownstones

Jezebels Jazz and Rijsttafel

Murders Curses and the Greatest Horror Movie of All Time

Coming of Age in the Sunshine State

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Steph Catudals Memoir Is Actually Two Books Woven Together

Three Fiction Debuts Examine the Steep Cost of Belonging

Girls to the Front!

Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough

When Truth No Longer Counts, How Does a Memoirist Tell Her Story?

With Hollywood Change Stagnating, a Call to ‘Burn It Down’

People We Meet on Vacation

14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer

Counting on Conversation

Three Books That Make Tess Gunty Angry

When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past

Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare

A ‘Lucky Child’ Writes His Way From Nigeria to the Global Stage

How Well Do You Know Popular Novels for Summer Reading?

A Hijacked Plane, a Childhood Trauma Long Repressed

When Society Collapses, These Traders Win Big

In Richard Ford’s New Novel, One More Trip for Old Times’ Sake

Lecher Actress Victim Spy

After Walking Offstage, a Concert Pianist Changes Her Tune

Larking, Library Sales and Yellow Silk Pajamas

Reconsidering the Reputation of a Magnet for Roman Scandal

Isabel Allende Has a Message: History Repeats Itself

Group Challenges Arkansas Law That Would Criminalize Access to Some Books

Newly Published, From Graphic Novels to Hot Dogs