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The Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s new novel pieces together fragments of a trip she took to Paris at the request of a much older photographer.

The poet’s debut novel features estranged sisters and a missing mother who seemingly reappears decades later.

The two teenagers in this hard-boiled novel go to work for a narcotics gang and end up in a far more sinister trade.

Your burning questions about the postal service are answered in Stephen Starring Grant’s lively memoir.

A new book investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.

Hannah Pittard goes back to the tale of her busted marriage in a comic novel about a claustrophobic literary milieu — and a talking cat.

“Pan,” by Michael Clune, details a year in the life of a suburban adolescent who can’t shake his panic attacks.

The author of the Divergent series recommends books that explore human nature and disintegrating reality.

In Dan Fesperman’s new novel, the C.I.A. tries celebrity diplomacy to infiltrate a dictatorship.