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Obsessed with the Ocean, Susan Casey Takes the Plunge

What Does It Mean to Be a Witness?

Belly of the Beast

Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did

Big Personalities, Small Towns and Rules Made to Be Broken

Late to the Reading Circle

How Does a Prolific Author Deal With Cold Feet?

A Fight to Save Soldiers, From the Lab to the Battlefield

Booksellers Move to the Front Lines of the Fight Against Books Bans in Texas

Lessons on Leadership From a Barbarian King

How Many Novels Set in the Mid-Atlantic States Do You Know?

Stories Like Norman Rockwell Paintings, if Rockwell Painted Guillotines

Regarding North Bath, Richard Russo Saved His Best for Last

Diana Athill’s Only Novel, About Coming of Age in 1950s London

Colson Whitehead on ‘Crook Manifesto’ and Harlem in the ’70s

A Mother, Her Daughter, a Masterwork of Psychological Tension

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Roald Dahl Museum Calls Author’s Racism ‘Undeniable and Indelible’

A Novel of Sex and Crisis in the Aftermath of the 1960s

Richard Russo Misses the Purity of Childhood Reading

Public and Private Lives, Playing Out in Four Sultry Romance Novels

Newly Published, From a Bayou Thriller to Drugs in America

Spies: Do You Know These Books and Their Screen Adaptations?

Can a Poem Be Too Short? It Depends on the Poem, and the Reader.

You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do.

Water, Water, Everywhere, and Now the Husband Is Gone

How a Rocky, Inhospitable Place Became a Beacon of Calm

The Year Is Half Over. Here Are the Books You Might Have Missed.

Newly Published, From Nuclear Close Calls to Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair

At American Apparel, a Sex-Positive Veneer Belied Abuse Underneath

I Scream, You Scream, the Kennedys Scream for Ice Cream

Hua Hsu Wants to Know Who Wrote the Zine ‘Secret Asian Man’

The Holocaust in Poland and the Erasures of the Past

A Centuries-Long Manhunt Stretches Across Mexico and Beyond

Suspecting Clandestine Plots Behind Every Door

Why Crack Became the 1980s Superdrug

Ann Beatties Stories Confront Charlottesville a City Remade

A Language-Learning Institute With a Disturbing Secret

In Djunas Space-Elevator Sci-Fi Corporate Conspiracies Abound

For a Tech Employee in Silicon Valley a Black Hole Looms Large

In 1960s New York City a Lost Young Woman Longs to Be Known

Rachel Ingalls Considers a Fix for Marital Ennui: Sex Robots

The Art of Translation

If We Are What We Eat We Dont Know Who We Are

A Tragic Act of Gun Violence Repeats Itself in a Small Southern Town

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Douglas Stuart Doesnt Need 3 People at His Dream Dinner Party

250 Pounds of Pot a Taco Truck and a Cross-Country Road Trip

This Bulgarian Writers Books Bend Time

Secrets and Horrors at a Tragedy-Stricken Amusement Park