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In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.

Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.

In “Under Story,” a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.

“The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard,” John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and ’70s.

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon’s latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.

A former Catholic priest, he later became an acclaimed author, writing more than two dozen works about life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.

As Shaun Tan reminds us with his stand-alone follow-up to “The Arrival,” some truths are so enormous, so beautiful, they can be told only through myth.

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A new book of essays by the celebrated classicist captures her excitement for her subject matter and the surprising range of her references.

Works by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.