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In Katherine Marsh’s new novel, the girl with the snaky curls loses neither her head nor her wits.

“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction.

The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.

The actor reads Michael Cunningham’s “Day,” a novel that visits a husband, wife and brother on the same day in April over three years.

Alexis Wright, an Indigenous Australian author, writes epic novels in which many voices clamor to be heard.

“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .

She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht bring David Auburn’s nostalgic play about an unlikely friendship straight to your ears.