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Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.

New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.

Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.

The experiences Ms. Kuang had during a summer spent studying Mandarin in the Taiwanese capital helped her shape her newest novel, “Taipei Story.”

Novels by Marlon James, Emma Cline, Hernan Diaz and John Green; nonfiction by Emily Wilson and Robert Kolker; and more.

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

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

Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.

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

For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer’s epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.