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The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and gambling towns of Baden-Baden, Bad Homburg and Wiesbaden. An admirer of his books follows his footsteps.

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course.

The caped crusader, who debuted in 1939, joins other illustrious figures — including Adam West, the actor who played him on TV.

In “We Solve Murders,” the author of the hugely popular Thursday Murder Club series introduces a new set of crime solvers.

Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.

In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat.

Sally Rooney lovers reveled, played trivia and took part in raffles to celebrate the Irish novelist’s new book, “Intermezzo.”

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

Her new novel, “Intermezzo,” considers love in its various permutations.

Our columnist on new books by Casey McQuiston, Erin Langston and Erica Ridley.