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In his fast-paced novel, Alejandro Puyana recounts the struggles and impossible choices of a family in deeply troubled Venezuela.

Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.

The fourth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.

Rosie Schaap’s new memoir, “The Slow Road North,” recalls her grief and her subsequent move out of Brooklyn.

“Swallow the Ghost,” by Eugenie Montague, is an up-to-the-minute mystery that defies convention.

A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.

Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.