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Adventures in Russian literature; a novel of domestic discontent.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter and the right utensils.

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.”

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism. He was also a dermatologist.

Skeletons, ghosts and more: Mike Mignola has a show at a Chelsea gallery, and it might not be what fans expect.

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

Her own is among the anonymous tales included in “Want,” a new collection she has edited: “It only felt right, given I was requesting courage from everyone else.”