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Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”

Across Korea and Canada and the Midwest, these lonely protagonists guide us through ennui, delusion and even the afterlife.

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

Two new books bring attention to old discoveries with the potential to cure stubborn ailments and reveal the secrets of biology.

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.

She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.

William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.

In a new book, Clare Carlisle considers the powerful partnership between the Victorian novelist and the de facto husband who tended her career.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.