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A Masterpiece That Inspired Gabriel García Márquez to Write His Own

The 10 Best Books of 2023

A French Thriller About a Kidfluencer Gone Missing

Can You Find the 14 Hidden Food-Themed Book Titles in This Puzzle?

When They Were Going Through Hell, They Kept a Record

Another Battle Royale in the Windsor War

Two Novels by Renegade Women

Magic Man: The Story of the Greatest Point Guard in N.B.A. History

Reading Her Own Audiobook, Jada Pinkett Smith Slaps Back

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Mark Kurlansky Wishes More Authors Would Denounce War

Bob Contant, Dedicated Bohemian Bookseller, Dies at 80

A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

100 Notable Books of 2023

In the Middle of a War With No End in Sight

To These Writers, Video Games Are Not Just Entertainment, but Art

To These Writers, Video Games Are Not Just Entertainment, but Art

‘Murder’s Easy. We Did Something Much Worse.’

A Trip to the French Countryside, and Through Time

The Critics Scoffed. Nora Roberts Just Kept Writing.

6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

In These Short Stories, Characters Young and Old Struggle to Connect

Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief

A Masterpiece About a Masterpiece, for All Ages

Tracy K. Smith Collects Books About the Supernatural

The Filmmaker and the Superspy

We All Love ‘Anne of Green Gables.’ What About ‘Emily of New Moon’?

A Writer’s Memorial to a Lover, and an Era, Lost to AIDS

Do You Know These Fictional Places in Popular Novels?

A Pandemic Novel That Never Says ‘Pandemic’

A Swift, Opinionated Portrait of Willa Cather (She Would Have Approved)

Inside Facebook’s Dangerous Battle Between Integrity and Engagement

Innocence, Here and Abroad

The Window Treatments to the Soul

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Read With Jenna, Who Writes With Barbara

Even for Two Pros, Collaboration Was No Picnic

‘Fear of Flying’ Is 50. What Happened to Its Dream of Freedom Through Sex?

‘What’s Cooking in the Kremlin’? A Heady Mix of Propaganda and Paranoia.

For Stephanie Land, College Was the School of Hard Knocks

Can the Parole Process Make Prison Sentences More Just?

His Mother Spoke Truth to Power, Until She Was Killed for It

Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close’

Who Is Hannah Grace? And Why Won’t She Show Her Face?

Welcome to Ed Park’s Many-Layered World

Jeff Tweedy Used to Browse Encyclopedias for Hours on End