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But “I’m averse to entertaining the thought that what I’m working on is a first draft,” she says, “which implies the necessity of a second, even a third.” Her new book is “Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael.”

After 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his chair.

A digital book, “Drawing for Nothing,” highlights some of the best art from canceled animation projects like “Me and My Shadow.”

Recent books by Ghostface Killah, Kathleen Hanna, Michael McDonald and Darius Rucker hit notes both high and low.

In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.

In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.

In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.

Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.

Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.