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He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.

A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.

That is, until war breaks out. “Endling,” by Maria Reva, is an ambitious whirlwind of a novel, set in Ukraine on the brink of disaster.

Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

John Birdsall’s “What Is Queer Food?” and Erik Piepenburg’s “Dining Out” both seek to define the place of cuisine in queer culture, history and expression.

“Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President” includes reflections on being asked to testify about her sex life, as well as the thrill of winning two lawsuits.

The culture critic Brian Raftery, who wrote about “Jaws” for the Book Review last year, discusses the movie’s anniversary with Gilbert Cruz.

Two children’s novels take a gimlet-eyed look at the price of gifts with “no strings attached.”