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In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.

For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was “life altering.” She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten author in “Traces of Enayat.”

A brother and sister battle for supremacy in 19th-century Newfoundland in Michael Crummey’s latest novel, “The Adversary.”

The writer and public intellectual reads “Doppelganger,” a searching exploration of uncanny doubles both personal and political.

In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.

Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.

When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.

Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.

When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.