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In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.

These books are perfect for the spooky season.

With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants an imaginary revolution.

From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.

Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.

The English writer Sarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir.

The young language-deprived protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s novel “Deer Run Home” tells her own story, in verse.

In “Night of Power,” Robert Fisk’s posthumous war stories focus on the victims and perpetrators in conflicts across the Middle East.

Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.