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Susan Sontag gave that high praise to “A Book of Memories,” a labyrinthine chronicle of life under Communism.

Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.

“I can always wait for the streaming version and hope for nudity,” says the writer, whose new novel, “The Tuxedo Society,” is about a cadre of gay spies.

In “Killing Spree,” Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”

It’s National Poetry Month! Greg Cowles, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends some poetry books while writing poems with fridge magnets.

Dean Young’s posthumous collection, “Creature Feature,” applies his characteristically giddy sense of unraveling to his own life and ill health.

His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.