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“Taipei Story,” R.F. Kuang’s seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.

In “Living With Freddie,” Anna Heyward recalls the pet who taught her “to be human.”

In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.

In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.

In “All the Presidents’ Wars,” the journalist Peter Bergen traces the many missteps of U.S. military action in the Middle East.

In “The Living Realm,” an expat in Germany is visited by phantoms.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Barbara Kingsolver remembers the man she counted among her most important literary mentors.

Meg Howrey’s novel “Body Language” doesn’t skimp on the kind of absurd humor that thrives in a crucible.

In “The Ghost of the Mountains,” Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi proves there is no substitute for old-fashioned field study.