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With Halloween around the corner, Gilbert Cruz talks to the Book Review editors Tina Jordan and Sadie Stein about their favorite creepy books.

What happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated.

Jewish magic, Southern conjure magic and Scottish magic abound in new middle grade novels by Laurel Snyder, Eden Royce and Elle McNicoll.

Jewish magic, Southern conjure magic and Scottish magic abound in new middle grade novels by Laurel Snyder, Eden Royce and Elle McNicoll.

In Tananarive Due’s new novel, a boy sentenced to a brutal reform school must capture the phantoms of those who died at the institution in the past.

The singer, who has not given a face-to-face interview since 2018, has avoided traditional public appearances for “The Woman in Me,” which is still finding audiences.

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.

The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.

Readers suggest books that help make sense of the nation’s most populous state.