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Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

A blues novel; a baseball tell-all.

Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.

The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.

A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.

For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling.

The 33-year-old librarian from California has become popular on TikTok and Instagram with his upbeat take on libraries.

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books.