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Our columnist on three of the month’s best new releases.

The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast “Killer in the Code.” But despite critics’ skepticism, he finds the evidence “completely convincing.”

The crown jewel of the singer’s philanthropic efforts has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But it isn’t immune to funding cuts.

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

Our columnist on new books by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Felicia Grossman and Tessa Bickers.

How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cinema — and America.

The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.

The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.

With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.