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In “The Ten Year Affair,” the novelist Erin Somers splits her narrative into two parallel realities, one of which imagines a young mother’s infidelity.

In Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel, a young woman responds to her husband’s infidelities in creative ways.

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history.

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.

Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book.

With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along.

His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers.

It’s October, which means it’s time for the master of horror to shine. Yet he’s become equally famous for several works of non-horror.

Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways.

James Van Der Zee’s baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.