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

“The Anniversary,” a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.

In “The Great Wherever,” generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.

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Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

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

In “Days of Miracle and Wonder,” Ashley Kahn revisits the “trials and triumphs” of Paul Simon’s “Graceland.”

In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.

In “The Book of Chuck,” clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.