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Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

The brightest minds explore the issue at every level, from the levers that control inflation to the best way to achieve work-life balance.

Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.

These terrifying tales by the likes of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson are more than good reads: They’ll freak you out, too.

His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward also reports that Donald J. Trump, while still in office, secretly sent Vladimir Putin what were then rare Covid-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s personal use.

Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.

After years of this-and-that jobs, Janice Hallett began to write a novel: “What do I have to lose?” Now a widely celebrated voice in crime fiction, she just launched her fifth book, “The Examiner.”