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If your idea of festive joy is being haunted by past memories or driven insane by mysterious specters, have we got the tradition for you.

“A book is made of language,” says the author, whose new novel is “Welcome Home, Stranger.” “How can a house be great if it’s made of shoddy materials? How can a dinner be great if it’s made with terrible ingredients?”

Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

She didn’t think she was going to contribute a short story to a new anthology. A stressful vacation changed her mind.

The prize’s organizers cited the Israel-Hamas war as the reason for stepping back from an event honoring a novel about the 1949 murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers.

The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.

A fight over Green’s books in his home state of Indiana reflects a broader cultural debate over what books are appropriate for young readers, and who gets to decide.

Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”