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She was so immersed in “The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones” that she forgot to eat dinner.

Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film.

Our columnist on the month’s best new books.

How Peter Grainger, an English mystery writer, self-published his way into prominence.

Four authors grapple with the fight over American identity, from the colonial era to the modern day.

Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.

William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.

The British scholar resigned from Cambridge after the university, which made him its youngest Black professor in 2023, began investigating his academic qualifications.

A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles’s architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.

Beth Brower has been self-publishing for a decade. But her series drawn from the cheeky “journals” of a young woman in Victorian England has been a breakout.