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Thousands of people, including prize-winning writers, signed a letter pledging not to work with “complicit” organizations. Many others opposed the call in a separate letter.

Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story.

The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award.

Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella.

The “Succession” actress will play all 26 characters in a stage production of the Oscar Wilde novel.

Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby.

Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

He was irreverent, absurdist and ahead of his time. Here’s the best of the best by the groovy pied piper who made poetry fun.