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In “The Responsible Party,” a novel by Claire Carusillo, a woman named Claire Carusillo vapes her way through her wild family history.

A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles’s architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.

These recommendations should tide over fans of Jeff Kinney’s laugh-out-loud illustrated novels until the next installment.

A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

In his groundbreaking “La Technique,” Jacques Pépin showed Americans how to do everything from carving swans out of apples to breaking down lamb.

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

A new animated special, “The Day You Begin,” based on the best-selling picture book, emphasizes the richness that diversity brings to a community.

The director of slasher films that defined horror from the 1970s through the ’90s realizes his latest work, “Cathedral,” as both a graphic novel and a hard-rock album.

His 2023 thriller “The Only One Left” has been on the best-seller list there for nearly a year. “The Unknown,” his 10th novel, is out this month.

Our critic on four terrific new releases.