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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.

In a new book, the historian Mark Peterson argues that our founding document is rooted in ideals of expansion and conquest ill suited to the nation we’ve become.

Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.

A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless growth impossible to sustain.