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New Books Try to Offer Shelter From the Storm of Dementia

Caster Semenya: ‘I’m Still a Woman’

16 New Books Coming in November

In the Early Days of Lockdown, a Writer Considers a Perplexing Age

Do Any of These Never Trumpers Have the Power to Persuade?

Dylan’s Back Pages, and Then Some

A Friendship Forged in Wartime Casts a Long Shadow

An Embarrassment of Witches

‘The Reformatory’ Turns the Lingering Impact of Racism Into Literal Ghosts

Henry Winkler’s Dream Dinner Guests Wrote for Stage, Page and TV

6 Terrific Witchy Y.A. Novels

Desperate to Make Her Mother Smile, Nina Simon Wrote a Book

6 Terrific Witchy Y.A. Novels

The Father-Son Struggle That Helped Ensure IBM’s Success

Britney Spears Doesn’t Need to Narrate Her Memoir for It to Sing

American Stories and a British Romance

How the World Once Handled War Crimes

Are Fears of A.I. and Nuclear Apocalypse Keeping You Up? Blame Prometheus.

Tupac Shakur’s Volatile Life, Delivered by Friendly Hands

For N.K. Jemisin, Reality Inspired Horror Fiction

For N.K. Jemisin, Reality Inspired Horror Fiction

Helen Garner Keeps ‘Paradise Lost’ and a Bible Close at Hand

When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly

Stephen Rubin, ‘Quintessential Hitmaker’ of the Book World, Dies at 81

A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy

Jacqueline Woodson and Amber McBride Look Backward to Look Forward

Can You Pair These Books With Their Settings in U.S. Cities?

A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast

Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?

Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.

Good Mom, Bad Mom, Possessed by Evil Mom

Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Heather Cox Richardson Wants You to Study History

For Tiya Miles, Girlhood Reading Was ‘My Escape and Joy’

New Novels Brimming With Mystery, Mayhem and Quite a Bit of Murder

Taking a Stand on Native American Rights

The Cosmic, Outrageous, Ecstatic Truths of Werner Herzog

A Radical Queer Novel Challenges the Idea of History Itself

Taking a Stand on Native American Rights

Press Gangs

A Spy Thriller and a Prismatic Look at Light

A New Mother Finds Solace From the Patriarchy — in Sex Work

Who Is Madonna, Anyway?

Newly Published, from Graphic Novels to a Covid-Era Literary Obsession

Ghosts Come in Many Forms in Bryan Washington’s New Novel

Audiobook of the Week: What’s Really in a Hot Dog?

Jhumpa Lahiri Translates the Varieties of Strangeness

Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work.

The writer attracts global renown for his plays.