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Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.

The author of “A Wolf Called Wander” recommends titles old and new, fantastical and true, that celebrate the natural world.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.

Julia Langbein’s novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.

The U.S. poet laureate’s new book, “Transient Worlds,” collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.

Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.

Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his sweeping family saga.

Her 1979 memoir, “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which also became a movie, detailed years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.

Jim Windolf’s new book, “Where the Music Had to Go,” traces the influence of Dylan on the Beatles and the Beatles on Dylan.