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Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths.

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

Jesse Ball’s Kafkaesque novel imagines a legal system that deploys a shockingly personal device.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.

For the first time in the award’s 55-year history, five of the six nominated titles are by female authors.