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Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it’s won the major award for translated fiction.

A neoconservative who fervidly opposed Communism and the fundamentalist regime in Iran, he wrote many books and articles, some of whose theories were later discredited.

Madeleine Thien’s time-warping historical novel “The Book of Records” collapses centuries and geographies in an ambitious family saga.

In “Bear Witness,” Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.

First published in 1972, Rosalyn Drexler’s “To Smithereens” throws two vivid subcultures — and two unlikely lovers — into the ring.

Now in its 25th year, The Dresden Files and its author have survived the darkness, fictional and otherwise.

Our critic on the month’s best releases.

In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” the novelist Yiyun Li endures the aftermath of unthinkable loss.

The beloved humor columnist looks back on a long career of wit and wisdom in a new memoir.

Lauren Christensen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, recommends four of her favorite audiobooks.