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A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.

His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.

The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.

Your imaginary audience has a note taped to them: “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about stories, plots or characters. What do you have for me?”

His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.