Magic, Conspiracy and a Down-on-His-Luck Detective

In “Harmattan Season,” the search for a missing woman uncovers a scheme that could change the fate of an occupied city in West Africa.

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2 Books to Bring Key West to Life

A poet’s letters; a collection of reminiscences.

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‘I Don’t Ever Want to Be Free From the Pain of Missing My Children’

Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ordinary grief memoir.

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Restaurant Critic Confidential

Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.

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These 4 People Had Never Met. Now They’re on a Road Trip to Find Dad.

In Kevin Wilson’s novel “Run for the Hills,” half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.

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Dark Money, White Power and Colorful Weirdos in Carl Hiaasen’s Latest

“Fever Beach” is a wacky blend of Floridian farce and the perverse politics of our time.

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When Childhood Trauma Gives Way to Adult Ambivalence

“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past.

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José Andrés Picked a Bad Time to Give His Daughter ‘Charlotte’s Web’

“Good choice, Daddy. Very nice,” she said sarcastically, given what he was making for dinner. The chef and humanitarian’s new book is “Change the Recipe.”

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7 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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