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“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world.

A new exhibition in Paris explores how Tove Jansson imagined a kind world that reflected her values as a lesbian artist and ardent pacifist.

In Allyson Shaw’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.

A Hollywood memoir; a call-girl novel

Five decades ago, an award-winning Malian author disappeared from public life after being accused of plagiarism. Now, his ambiguous novel is being released, and evaluated, in new light.

The Utah Republican’s announcement that he would retire coincided with the publication of a forthcoming book based on extensive interviews in which he slammed his party and the Senate.

Dissolving a marriage; raising a granddaughter.

In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”