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Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.

His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it — doing any publicity — remains a challenge, she said.

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.

Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared.

In “Stolen Pride,” Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the emotional lives of Americans who vote for Donald Trump.

In Jamie Quatro’s Southern Gothic novel “Two-Step Devil,” a dying “Prophet” and a former sex-trafficking victim make the same journey for two very different reasons.

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend.

In his new memoir, the CNN veteran opens up about faith, his midlife career upheaval and that time he got into homemade laundry detergent.

Garth Greenwell takes on pain and illness in his new novel, “Small Rain.”