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Matt Phelan’s bear cub named Bartleby and Scott Rothman’s judgy bunny aren’t wicked or misbehaved. Like our reviewer, they simply prefer not to.

In anticipation of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a Pulitzer winner visited 300 sites to see how history is displayed and, sometimes, erased.

Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.

The sloppy, solipsistic narrator of Kirsten King’s novel, “A Good Person,” casts a witchy spell on a guy who dumped her. Hours later, he’s been stabbed to death.

Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.

In “Transcription,” Ben Lerner considers a famous father, a loyal protégé and a distant son, bound by devotion and separated by miscommunication.

“The Keeper,” the final book in her Cal Hooper trilogy, returns readers to an insular village in rural western Ireland.

In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan’s novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell.

Philip Stead’s “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” gleefully ignores all the storytelling rules.

Just in time for the start of the season, Robert Coover’s prescient 1968 novel is back in print.