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In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson’s enigmatic novella

In Tayari Jones’s new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they’ve always yearned for.

The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.

Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

“More Than Enough” traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.

The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.

As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.