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Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.

The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.

Her writing, from the late 1920s to the late ’40s, about sex, marriage, divorce, child rearing and work-life balance still resonates.

In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.

A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.

Dwight Garner writes that voters, who “seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,” looked for immersive reads.

Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It’s also about hellos.

In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.

The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.