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In a world worth exploring, our reviewer argues, an occasional spill is the price of admission.

In Helen Phillips’s near-future novel, “Hum,” a family’s dream vacation away from technology devolves into a misadventure with major consequences.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet.

A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.

There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors.

Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.

Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

The protagonist of Madison Newbound’s debut novel, “Misrecognition,” returns to her hometown after a breakup with her power-imbalanced polycule.

On the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, a look at this revolutionary work that was a playwriting milestone for him.