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In “All the Way to the River,” the best-selling writer dilutes a powerful story of love, addiction and loss with saccharine self-indulgence.

The popular science writer, whose new book is “Replaceable You,” has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more.

Echoing backward to the sixth century and forward to “The Lion King,” the play shows young people that stories are resilient against time and chaos.

In a new memoir and documentary, the actor known for “Two and a Half Men,” “Platoon” and a debauched life that nearly killed him puts it all out there.

Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.

The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.

Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece.

Andrew Davies has spent more than four decades spinning novels from “Pride and Prejudice” to “House of Cards” into small-screen gold.

In Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” a lonely, repressed line cook allows herself to be taken advantage of by several people in her life, until she can’t stand it any longer.

In “Ghosted,” Alice Vernon explores the human urge to pierce the veil — and the many mediums, charlatans and true believers who made it an enduring industry.