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In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York.

Our columnist on vacation-ready reads.

Our columnist on vacation-ready reads.

She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.

Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What’s not to love?

Our columnist reviews July’s horror releases.

“Tree. Table. Book” and “Not Nothing” feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories.

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

“It’s nice to work with faculty without that inbuilt prejudice against genre,” says the author of “I Was a Teenage Slasher.” “Or, I’m a little bit tall, so it’s tricky to look down your nose at me.”

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.