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The “mystical capital of Europe” serves as the backdrop for the author’s latest novel, “The Secret of Secrets.” Here are five spots that fire his imagination.

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.

In a new book, two longtime fashion editors — along with Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Katie Couric — open up about times they got canned.

Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.

Fifty years after “Salem’s Lot,” Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.

The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn’t. But he doesn’t let it get him down.

In Mason Coile’s new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.

In “Rocket Dreams,” Christian Davenport revels in the struggle between the billionaire moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to leave the Earth behind.