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This Josephine Baker Oral History Has Never Been Published Here. Now We Know Why.

The Best Spicy Romance Novels, According to Ali Hazelwood

Hanif Kureishi Wonders What Dostoyevsky’s Characters Did in Bed

No Writer Better Understood the Agony of Expectation

The Ironic Fight Against Liberty in the American Revolution

3 Chilling Horror Books to Read This Month, Including a Reissued Classic

An Unsolved Murder Haunts an Elite Black Family in New England

A Lonely 20-Something Finds Her Ideal Mate. It’s a Blob.

A Cinco de Mayo Time Travel Fantasy

You Know Emerson and Thoreau. Why Not Their Female Counterparts?

10 Winter Reads for Cold Nights

The ‘Hellboy’ Artist Makes a New Playground

In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’

The Absurd, Dizzying Humanity of a 20th-Century Genius

In Han Kang’s Latest, a Quixotic Bird Rescue Expedition Turns Tragic

Books on Drug Trafficking, and Kant, Line Adam Haslett’s Shelves

Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s Clothes

Pregnant and Abused, These Young Women Fight Back With Witchcraft

Sex, Drugs and Clubbing Are a Means of Escape for This ‘Good Girl’

Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.

She Published a Blockbuster Book. Was It a Blessing or a Curse?

3 New Thrillers Fueled by Obsession and Blackmail

In a Dystopian Nepal, an Earthquake’s Aftershocks Are Mostly Political

A Sex Tape, a Senate Race and a Centuries-Old Family Curse

Graham Norton Isn’t Insulted to Be Called an ‘Undemanding’ Writer

Jenna Bush Hager: ‘Today’ Show Co-Host, Literary Tastemaker and Now, Publisher

They Save Others for a Living, but Struggle to Save Themselves

Where in the World Do These Popular Detectives Solve Crimes?

Anita Desai Has Put Down Roots, but Her Work Ranges Widely

The Hero of This Novel Is 14. His Married Girlfriend Is 36.

An Overdose Sends a Widower Hunting for His Wife’s Lost Descendants

2 Books About the Moneyed Class

A Student’s Mystery: How Did This Enigmatic Author Shape Her Family?

War Tore Them Apart and Fate Reunited Them. Could Their Love Last?

Life in the Tudor Industrial Complex: Sex, Beheadings, Fur

Encyclopedia Brown Got Alafair Burke Started on Crime Fiction

The Secret Lives of Vikings