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In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.

In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.

Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.

He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.

Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.

This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”

Toby Lloyd centers religion and politics in his novel, “Fervor,” but with a light, mystical touch.

In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their reality despite constraints imposed on them from outside.

Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.