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Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.

How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.

A tax manifesto by Edmund Wilson and a money-themed story collection.

The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company’s history and its hopes for the future.

People cross boundaries in Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” and Penelope Lively’s “The Photograph.”

New novels from Emily Henry, Jo Piazza and Rachel Khong; a history of five ballerinas at the Dance Theater of Harlem; Salman Rushdie’s memoir and more.

Maya Van Wagenen, the author of “Chronically Dolores,” shares her favorite young adult books that authentically represent being a teenager living with illness.

A Chinatown hotel; an adventuress on the make.

In Armando Lucas Correa’s thriller “The Silence in Her Eyes,” vision impairment only enhances a young woman’s sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.