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Archival photographs, fashion layouts and anecdotes from celebrity clients: A new book is devoted to all things Valentino.

In V.E. Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil,” three women turned into vampires are thrown into a centuries-long drama of love, power and hunger.

In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.

In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.

In Jess Walter’s new novel, “So Far Gone,” a retired environmentalist turned recluse comes out of isolation to find his grandchildren.

“Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution and its most infamous murderers.

In S.A. Cosby’s new book, “King of Ashes,” an investment banker returns home to protect his family from a local gang.

Now attached to Bard College, the literary journal is about to publish new commentary and a popular historical feature. Next year: the print magazine.

Plus: a cliff-top hotel in Brittany, dynamic sculptures at New York’s Japan Society and more recommendations from T Magazine.

In “Submersed,” Matthew Gavin Frank takes on the undersea universe of amateur submarine enthusiasts — and one obsession turned deadly.