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Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are melancholy, complex and occasionally scary.

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.

The U.N. climate conference, held in a petrostate, is a surreal moment. This darkly funny novel about Baku, oil companies and climate change in the first Trump term helps make sense of it all.

In “Prospero’s Daughter” and other novels, she explored the legacy of colonialism in her native Trinidad and the struggle for belonging in an adopted country.

Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase him.

Barry Gifford’s bohemian scrapbook; Elizabeth McCracken’s eulogy for a mother.