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Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.

Douglas Stuart’s latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.

In “The Savage Landscape,” the nature writer Cal Flyn argues that wilderness is just one more man-made invention.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Patrick Radden Keefe’s dazzling investigation into the death of a British teenager.

How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.

As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.

Beth Brower has been self-publishing for a decade. But her series drawn from the cheeky “journals” of a young woman in Victorian England has been a breakout.