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Relatives of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died earlier this year, contend that the book underplays the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband.

The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail.

Novels by Richard Osman and Patricia Lockwood, memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert and Arundhati Roy, the continued adventures of Robert Langdon and more.

“Vulture,” by Phoebe Greenwood, follows a journalist’s downward spiral in Gaza.

Tales of body-snatching aliens and apocalyptic super-flus by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and more double as time capsules of American fear.

He discovered and nurtured Michael Lewis, Sebastian Junger and many other authors. He had, Mr. Lewis said, “the storytelling equivalent of perfect pitch.”

Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.

Life on the red planet? “Bosh and nonsense,” said one astronomer. But according to “The Martians,” plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.

A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.

In his best-selling books, notably the “Natchez Burning” trilogy, he addressed what one reviewer called “the pervasive impact of past events.”