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Our columnist on four standout releases.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In her new memoir, the actress known for movies like “Say Anything” and “Gas Food Lodging” talks about Hollywood, bisexuality and the trappings of Gen X fame.

Scorching-hot westerns, seafaring adventures and steamy romances are an ideal way to stay toasty this season.

In “Meltdown,” Duncan Mavin describes the grand rise and ignominious fall of a financial behemoth.

The author of the “Gray Man” espionage series grew up on James Bond, but that Ian Fleming novel has too much golf, too little “secret agenting.”

A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers.

Even before the new Trump administration began to erode U.S. influence on autocratic countries, a diverse array of experts started to rethink the future of global democracy.

A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry.