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Our columnist on three notable new novels.

Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he’s collaborated with David Levithan on the novel “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”

The authors of two savvy new books offer hope that there’s more to being terminally online than sore thumbs and brain rot.

Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.”

In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

2025 is more than halfway gone. On this week’s podcast, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib discuss some of the books that have stayed with them most this year.

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing?