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Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.

Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh’s nuanced take on the Netflix show’s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

In “Every Story Is a Love Story,” a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.

In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.

A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.

Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.

Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.

A new biography argues that the artist famous for haunting canvases of solitary figures in late-night diners was deeply influenced by his times.