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His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.

For the first time in 20 years, a sweeping new wine book examines France thoroughly. What’s new may be surprising.

Bhuchung Sonam co-founded a press to nurture the writing of Tibetans, helping provide through literature a sense of home for a stateless population.

A postapocalyptic landscape and a stark view of the present, hollowed out but for the corporate interests.

In “Into the Bright Sunshine,” Samuel G. Freedman makes the case that Humphrey was part of the vanguard in the fight for civil rights.

“Crook Manifesto,” set in the 1970s, finds the “Harlem Shuffle” protagonist Ray Carney drawn back into the game in order to score Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter.

The title character in Jon Klassen’s new chapter book, “The Skull,” is the personification of his unique brand of expressionless humor.

While researching her best-selling book, “White House by the Sea,” Kate Storey inquired about dessert that unites us.

“A collection of these issues would undoubtedly be my favorite book that no one has heard of,” says the author of the memoir “Stay True,” one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2022. “If you are reading this, please write me!”

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.