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In “The Butterfly Thief,” Walter Marsh tells the story of a notorious crime and its eccentric perpetrator.

It began with Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Nobel Prize in October, and continued this month with the Booker Prize and the National Book Awards. Our panel of editors discusses what it all means.

He turned an obsession with forgotten stars into a popular series, long before “Where Are They Now?” features became ubiquitous.

He translated nearly 30 books, including novels by Georges Perec, a master of linguistic games, and Ismail Kadare.

The author’s newly unveiled papers reveal the meticulous planning and devotion to cooking that went into her big holiday meals.

In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief that it extended to other animals.

Like her debut, “The Dive From Clausen’s Pier,” the novelist’s “Some Bright Nowhere” is bound to touch a nerve. That’s fine with her.

How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today.

Eleven recommendations for fans of Rick Riordan’s Olympians series, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.