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Reimagining Real Lives in the Best New Historical Fiction

Writing a Book About Grief Isn’t Always Cathartic

What Is Your Favorite Funny Novel? Tell Us.

22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’

Kate Zambreno Takes Issue With What Counts as ‘Literature’

A Food Writer Whose Essays Go Heavy on the Salt and Fire

He Played the Victim. It Earned Him Attention, Success and a Lot of Trouble.

A Bee’s-Eye View of the World

A Love-Addled Apple Farmer, Inseparable Sisters and Other Fictional Heroes of Massachusetts

A Move to England Led Armistead Maupin Back to ‘Tales of the City’

No One Has Ever Read Genesis Like This

A Modern-Day Persephone, Seduced by Opioids and Wealth

Inspired by a Real Mystery, This Novel Skewers the Art World

An Amnesiac Pieces Together a Life From Strangers’ Stories

A Fresh Look at a Sensational 1843 Murder Case and Its Fallout

Two Lives Intertwined, on Both Sides of the Camera

Two Books About Lovable Unlikable People

Tana French’s Moody, Mesmerizing New Thriller

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Comedy Gold

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