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

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

Some of the Best Bards Were Women

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

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

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

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

Cosmically Connected in a Journey From Deep Sea to Deep Space

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

Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires

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

A Love Song to His Roots

How to Speak New York

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

Four New Books in Translation Test the Bounds of Reality

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

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

This Novel Is So Bonkers, It Needs Three Narrators

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

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

In This Novel, a Second Civil War Reinstates Black Bondage

The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration

Kelly Link Returns with a Dreamlike, Profoundly Beautiful Novel

A Trio of Globe-Trotting Novels

Two Books From Down Under

A Tale of Midlife Love With a Bombshell Ending

Two Memoirs of Survival and Its Long Shadow

Julianne Moore Channels Love and Loss in an Intimate Family Drama

Marissa Meyer Writes the Books She’d Like to Read

Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds

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

A Speculative Jazz Age Noir Brimming With Murder and Conspiracy

Do You Know Where These Apocalyptic Novels Are Set?

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

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

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

A Debut Novel About the Beautiful Chaos of Modern Young Adulthood

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

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

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