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Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.

Our columnist reviews this season’s new books.

What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break.

The Book Review editors discuss fiction and nonfiction that caught their eye. Plus, Ada Limón on the power of poetry.

These single-serving satires, family dramas and romances can be read cover-to-cover in one sun-dappled afternoon.

Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.

One hundred years after it was banned for its depiction of hedonism, the rhythmic, jazz-soaked poetry of Joseph Moncure March continues to find new life.

The author Elizabeth Arnott recommends thrilling tales of domestic vengeance and feminine power.

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.

An adaptation has a twist that doesn’t track, and songs that benefit from an excellent cast, including Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs.