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Our columnist on the month’s best new mysteries.

Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.

These 13 bloodthirsty tales will keep you up at night with clever thrills and heart-pounding action.

She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson’s enigmatic novella

Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.

Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic give the March sisters’ story a darker and more contemporary spin.

After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms.

What’s a publisher to do when a novel hews close to the news cycle?