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Show the zoologist Bill Schutt what your mouth looks like, and he’ll tell you who you are.

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

In Jo Hamya’s second novel, “The Hypocrite,” a 20-something playwright puts her absent, aging writer dad on blast.

Nathan Newman’s uproarious “How to Leave the House” follows a haughty young Englishman looking for a missing package and the endearing neighbors he meets on the hunt.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

In “On the Edge,” the election forecaster argues that the gambler’s mind-set has come to define modern life.

In the Swedish author Moa Herngren’s latest novel, “The Divorce,” a middle-aged mother is about to head off on a family holiday in the Baltic when she realizes her husband isn’t coming.

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial.

In the 1960s, he was among the first Westerners allowed into the country, and for decades he helped the rest of the world understand it.