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Italo Calvino? Not so bad! May Sarton? Pretty good!

In “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon,” the historian Heath Hardage Lee tries to give the oft-maligned “Plastic Pat” her due.

In 1969, Honor Moore was granted an abortion by a Connecticut psychiatrist, and went on with her life. In 2024, she reckons with the fallout.

She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.

Much of Colorado’s literature is about the flow of people whose imaginations, like the novelist Peter Heller’s, were ignited by myths of unbridled freedom. He recommends some favorites.

In “House of Bone and Rain,” Gabino Iglesias sets a supernatural revenge fantasy against the approach of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Among her favorites: books by Pat Barker and Marguerite Yourcenar. Her own latest work of historical nonfiction is “Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.”

Woodward, an author and journalist, has written more than 20 best selling books. His latest will focus on Ukraine, the Middle East, and the battle for the U.S. presidency.

A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.

In search of a connection between two worlds — one beloved, one baffling — a bibliophile made a musical pilgrimage.