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The best-selling author Gillian McAllister recommends novels that blend escapist settings with pulse-pounding intrigue and bloody murder.

A grass-roots campaign urged readers to buy copies of the Black feminist writer’s 2002 book “Communion” before Vice President JD Vance’s book of the same name hit shelves.

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is approaching 50 — they deserve another look.

An introduction to a living genius of children’s literature for the adults who will inevitably read her on repeat.

A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an “oldigarchy,” in which wealth and power are hoarded by the elderly.

On “Tony Brown’s Journal,” he interviewed guests like Jesse Jackson and Lena Horne, and made programming decisions by asking himself, “Will it help Black people?”

Novels by Colson Whitehead and Daniel Mason, the final “Heartstopper” graphic novel, gripping thrillers, lush romantasy, true crime and more.

“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system.

In Paul Tremblay’s new A.I. dystopia, “Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep,” an experimental technology gives its heroine control over somebody else’s body.

Our columnist on new books by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Felicia Grossman and Tessa Bickers.