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In her new memoir, Meghan O’Gieblyn plumbs the philosophical implications of twin longings: for spiritual fulfillment and for drink.

“Sleeping Beauties,” by the musician David Byrne, explores artistic and scientific innovations that were overlooked before being embraced.

“Other Worlds Than These” is the final volume in the Talisman trilogy, which King wrote with Peter Straub.

A new adaptation dispenses with period glamour in favor of a lived-in feel and realism. The goal is to bring emotions to the fore.

Our columnist on new novels from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and John Grisham.

In six major books, John Iliffe centered his research not on kings, dictators and guerrilla chiefs but rather on ordinary African citizens. He has died at 87.

Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.

The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

In “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth,” Jeanna Smialek tells the story of a 19th-century author whose fiction brought economic theory down to earth.