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Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

Ahead of its new production of Anthony Davis’s “X,” the house hosted a starry, 18-hour reading of Malcolm X’s autobiography.

A.K. Blakemore’s novel “The Glutton” reimagines the life of an 18th-century sideshow performer who could eat almost anything.

The process of selling Simon & Schuster has been long and tumultuous, and was waylaid by an earlier antitrust suit.

In a stunning verdict, he was found not guilty of participating in the storied 1978 theft, retold in the film “Goodfellas.” Then he went to prison over a road rage incident.

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

Barbra Streisand’s mammoth biography, Stephanie Land’s follow-up to “Maid,” Sigrid Nunez’s new novel and more.

For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.

The National Book Award winner smuggles profound reflections on pain and loss into novels of deceptive lightness.

A prolific journalist and author, he ignited an uproar with a less-than-flattering portrait of Charles and Diana’s marriage. “The most reviled man in Britain,” one newspaper called him.