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John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

In Mikita Brottman’s true-crime odyssey, “A Double Life,” things get lurid.

Set just after World War I, “The Eye of Goliath” details a man’s descent into madness and a doctor’s unorthodox treatment methods.

Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.

At 82, the famously roguish leading man has written a memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” that’s as candid and intimate as it is feisty.

One of them takes the phrase “joined at the hip” to a whole new level.

Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.

The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.

Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.