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In “The Great Wherever,” generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.

The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.

Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.

William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.

A terrifying personal experience inspired Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, which is set in Miami and Brooklyn, but with Haiti always in mind.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.

In “Days of Miracle and Wonder,” Ashley Kahn revisits the “trials and triumphs” of Paul Simon’s “Graceland.”