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It’s Hard to Be Chronically Online and Hate Your Friends

Do You Know These Family Sagas of Page and Screen?

What Is Going On Inside the Department of Justice?

Disco, Djinns and 5-Star Service in Afghanistan

Book Club: Read ‘Hamnet,’ by Maggie O’Farrell, With the Book Review

23 Books Coming in November

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

Jack Carr Knows His Way Around a Battlefield, and a Military Thriller

Images of Black Beauty and Belonging

Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close

Romance Novels That Are Spicy, Sweet and Flat-Out Stunning

Do You Recognize These Literary References in Modern Pop Culture?

Let’s Remember, Stephen King Isn’t Always Scary

A Horrific Tale of the Slave Trade, Destined to Become a Classic

Thomas McGuane: ‘I’m Not Interested in Ingenuity’

A Novel Intertwines the Many Dramas of Life in an Autocracy

Great Historical Horror Novels

How World War II Transformed America and the Globe, for Better and Worse

An Oddly Bloodless Memoir From a Masterly Chef

In This Horror Novel, the First Terror is Being Trapped on a Cruise

Ruth Weiss, Who Chronicled Apartheid After Fleeing the Nazis, Dies at 101

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

A Canine Classic Turns 25 and a New Novel Joins the Pack

Woody Allen’s First Novel: Funny-ish, but Very Familiar

She Modeled Her Whole Life on Godly Purity. Then She Woke Up.

8 New Books We Love This Week

In This Spanish Office, Work Is Hell. It’s Also Hilarious.

Patricia Lockwood Craves an Easier Way to Eat While Reading

Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate

What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders.

Jill Lepore Thinks the U.S. Constitution Might Break America

What Happened to the High-Tech Space Race?

Page to Screen: Do You Know the Inspiration for These Adaptations?

Can One Novel Capture the Expanses of Human Thought?

Robert Louis Stevenson Was Ahead of His Time, Except When He Wasn’t

An Edgy Comedy About Sex, Duty and Food Service

21 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall

She Won the Booker Prize. Then She Disappeared for 20 Years.

Rosalyn Drexler, a Modern-Day Renaissance Woman, Dies at 98

100 Years Ago, Fictional Londoners Looked Up. They Saw Our Present Day.

Birds Who Help Humans, and Other Tales of Inter-Species Cooperation

Zdena Salivarova, Publisher Who Kept Czech Literature Alive, Dies at 91

An Environmental Villain, Reconsidered

A New ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Unites Stephen King With Maurice Sendak

A.I. Bots or Us: Who Will End Humanity First?

Spy Novels: A Starter Pack

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Favorite Haunted House Novels

A Tender New Biography Emphasizes James Baldwin’s Romantic Side

Vacation Vibes: Match These Novels to Their Settings

What’s Wrong With White People? A Story Collection Counts the Ways.