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A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.

An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.

A chilly marriage; a catatonic protagonist.

In this respect, the president has something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker.

These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.

An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.

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.