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The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

The novelist Michael Connelly knows he is putting his reputation on the line with the podcast “Killer in the Code.” But despite critics’ skepticism, he finds the evidence “completely convincing.”

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.

Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.

In “Under Story,” a grieving woman makes a discovery that could help her recover what she thought she had lost forever.

“The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard,” John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and ’70s.

Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film.

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read Paul Yoon’s latest, about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.