Kate DiCamillo Says ‘Paying Attention Is a Way to Love the World’

The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag.

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15 New Books Coming in March

Memoirs from RuPaul and Christine Blasey Ford; Tana French’s latest crime thriller; new novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht — and more.

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In a Novelist’s Hands, a Herstory of England Is Delicious — but Not Sweet

In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides.

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Some of the Best Bards Were Women

In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.

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Kirsten Bakis’s Long-Awaited Second Novel Is a Busy Gothic Noir

Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island.

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Is America All-Knowing and All-Powerful? Yes, Thought Saddam Hussein.

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.

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Sold Into a Brothel at 15, a Japanese Girl Finds Strength in Words

“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.

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Confronting What It Means to Be Black in America Through Faith and Art

For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”

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Cosmically Connected in a Journey From Deep Sea to Deep Space

A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.”

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‘My Beloved Life’ Traces India’s History Through a Father’s Watchful Eye

Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic.

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Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires

“I’ve been prank-calling Justin Torres for like two decades,” says the poet and performer, whose new book is called “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.”

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‘Poor Things,’ the Weird Movie, Was a Weird Novel First

The Oscar-nominated film is based on a 1992 book by the prolific Scotsman Alasdair Gray. Beloved by writers, “that’s not the same as being widely read,” says one of them.

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A Love Song to His Roots

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.

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How to Speak New York

In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.

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When a Teen Was Shot Dead, the Tragedy for This Author Was Personal

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. “Sito” tells the story.

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Four New Books in Translation Test the Bounds of Reality

A roundup of international fiction from Congo, Sweden, Bolivia and India.

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She’s a Social Media Influencer’s Assistant, and She’s Spiraling

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator.

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‘We’re Going to Stand Up’: Queer Literature is Booming in Africa

Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards.

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This Novel Is So Bonkers, It Needs Three Narrators

“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction.

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Writer, Mother, Ex-Wife: Leslie Jamison Is a Self in ‘Splinters’

In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires.

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The Filmmaker Ed Zwick Likes Books He Can’t Imagine as Movies

“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”

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In This Novel, a Second Civil War Reinstates Black Bondage

Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.”

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The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration

In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.

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Kelly Link Returns with a Dreamlike, Profoundly Beautiful Novel

In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.

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A Trio of Globe-Trotting Novels

From England and France to the deepest Arctic and northern China, these stories will transport you.

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Two Books From Down Under

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

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A Tale of Midlife Love With a Bombshell Ending

In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still married. What now?

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Two Memoirs of Survival and Its Long Shadow

“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances.

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Julianne Moore Channels Love and Loss in an Intimate Family Drama

The actor reads Michael Cunningham’s “Day,” a novel that visits a husband, wife and brother on the same day in April over three years.

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Marissa Meyer Writes the Books She’d Like to Read

“I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom-com “With a Little Luck.”

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Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment.

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A Scottish Coming-of-Age Story, With a Supernatural Twist

In Margot Livesey’s new novel, “The Road From Belhaven,” a 19th-century farm girl’s life and maturity are complicated by her uncontrollable visions of accident and disaster.

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A Speculative Jazz Age Noir Brimming With Murder and Conspiracy

In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.

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Do You Know Where These Apocalyptic Novels Are Set?

Try this short quiz to see how many fictional disasters you remember from your reading.

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A Contemplative Novel Set in the I.C.U.

In his new novel, “Trondheim,” the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital.

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A Dead Child, Too Much Booze and a Family in Crisis

“Ordinary Human Failings,” a new novel by the Irish writer Megan Nolan, is a fierce and relentless account of characters trapped by circumstance and tragedy.

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A Child’s-Eye View of Grandparents and South Carolina

In her debut novel, “Redwood Court,” DéLana R.A. Dameron begins with an innocuous question: “What am I made of?”

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A Debut Novel About the Beautiful Chaos of Modern Young Adulthood

In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life.

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Audiobook of the Week: Liev Schreiber Reprises His Role as Martin Baron

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

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Kristin Hannah’s New Novel Shows a Nurse’s View of the Vietnam War

“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.

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Read All About It! The Long and Bloody History of True Crime Lit.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

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