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In “Talk,” Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

Our columnist on four stellar new releases.

In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left behind.

Dark Horse Comics announced it would no longer publish the author and canceled further publication of his “Anansi Boys” series.

The novelist is 75. Rusty Sabich, the now-retired prosecutor he introduced in “Presumed Innocent,” is 77 — and taking on a new case in “Presumed Guilty.”

Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Good Dirt” weaves together grief, suspense and the story of a jar made by an enslaved potter generations earlier.

His own experience assisting his terminally ill wife in ending her life set him on a path to founding the Hemlock Society and writing a best-selling guide.

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.