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Florida in the early 1960s; California in the mid-1980s.

In the novel “Consider Yourself Kissed,” a wife and mother faces many of the same hurdles in 2016 that women did decades ago.

In his latest novel, “The Living and the Rest,” José Eduardo Agualusa takes readers to a literary festival in Africa where novelists’ characters come to life.

His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.

The lauded cartoonist talks about the process behind her autobiographical new graphic novel, “Spent.”

Looking for some fictional murder and mayhem? Our columnist is keeping track of the best crime novels of 2025.

Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from “The Lord of the Rings.”

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a wayward wash of color.

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