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A maximalist comedy about the interior life, a riff on fatherhood and a return after four decades to a sci-fi classic are all worth close looks this month.

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.

The comedian Jenny Slate reads the audiobook version of “Lifeform,” her new memoir about parenting.

The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.

A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.

Gripping histories, cleareyed memoirs and satirical fiction can help you make sense of our political moment.

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form of rebellion against its culture.

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

Betsy Lerner has spent decades in the publishing industry. Writing her first novel, “Shred Sisters,” unlocked a completely new side to her creativity.

The longest-lived president has also written more best-selling books than any modern president — and had the fewest written about him.