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

Devotion is the overwhelming concern of this book about two friends making their way in the art scene in 1990s New York City.

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.

An English national treasure collects a career’s worth of poems in a new book.

For kids who hide indoors with a pile of books until the autumnal chill arrives.

“Misery of Love,” by the French virtuoso cartoonist Yvan Alagbé, is a subtle masterpiece of family psychodrama.

An unhappy housewife; an underground radical.

Daniel Kraus’s “Angel Down” follows a World War I private who encounters a celestial being on the battlefield.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”