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In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.

His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.

The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.