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In Weike Wang’s novel “Rental House,” a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.

In “Gabriel’s Moon,” William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.

The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.

In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.

In that 1970 book and others, he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.

An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,” examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.

The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.

Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.

The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo’s novel “Apartment Women” imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.

In that 1970 book and others, he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.