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In his book “The New York Game,” Kevin Baker tells the origin story of the sport we know today.

In “Bad Animals,” Sarah Braunstein asks who has the right to tell a story — and whether it’s possible to get pulled into one against your will.

“On Gaslighting,” by the philosophy professor Kate Abramson, explores the psychological phenomenon behind the hashtags.

A sociologist in New York, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.

In “Soldiers and Kings,” the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.

The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.

More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.

If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event’s floor plan.

He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.

In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy.