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If you’re tempted to ghost someone, try a “connected goodbye” instead.

A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.

Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.

“I haven’t finished it yet,” she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, “Otherwhere,” collects 50 years of her poetry.

The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky’s “Mock Heart” show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.

The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.

New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.

In an impressive change of pace, Emma Cline’s new novel gets inside the head of a stoic businessman with dementia.

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.