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A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories.

Every season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this spring is no different. On this episode Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about a dozen or so titles that sound interesting in the months ahead.

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden.

Sally Kim, president and publisher at Little, Brown and Company, wants to give everyone a seat at the table.

The novel “Goddess Complex,” by Sanjena Sathian, takes a sharp turn from an existential crisis into a more literal one.

Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?

A cache of family documents led a journalist to discover the source of the wealth that allowed his family to remake life in Australia after surviving World War II in Europe.

As the Trump administration pushes for renewed business ties with Russia, a new book looks back at the companies that helped prop up illiberalism in the country.

In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life assault case as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers.

Didion’s influential account of the era, “The White Album,” captures the ripples of terror provoked by the 1969 murders.