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Matthew Quick’s memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.

Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, “Unsayable” feels destined for the graduation gift bag.

For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer’s epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.

In “The Mortons,” a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.

A new compendium of Roberta Gregory’s comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.

The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.

A psychologist, he wrote during the AIDS crisis about survivor’s guilt and depression in his H.I.V.-negative patients.