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In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.

Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three dystopian novels to read this summer.

The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer’s fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises.

With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in America.

“Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

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

For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

Childhood summers on an island without TV made her a fervent reader. The result: a new entry in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series and a live-action movie.

In “The CIA Book Club,” Charlie English tells the story of America’s war of ideas in the Eastern Bloc.

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.