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Great Historical Horror Novels

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

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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.

A Novel That Offers the Pleasure of Seeing a Perfect Family Crumble

‘War Is Too Serious to Take Seriously All the Time,’ So He Wrote a Comic Novel

These Science Fiction Novels Will Take You on an Epic Journey

Do You Know These Books and Their Television Adaptations?

This Tale of Boyhood Is Brutal. It’s Also Unforgettable.

Jason Mott Doesn’t Get the Love for Cormac McCarthy’s Last Books

A Life of Threadbare Bohemian Privilege, Revisited

In These Books, There Be Monsters

Every Morning, Will Oldham Reads for the Length of Two LPs

Cozy Mystery Novels: A Starter Pack

A Wealthy French Family and Generations of Heartache

Robert W. Fuller, Who Championed Dignity Over ‘Rankism,’ Dies at 88

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘The Catch,’ by Yrsa Daley-Ward

6 New Books We Love This Week

4 Romance Novels With Delicious Payoffs

Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82