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A terrifying personal experience inspired Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, which is set in Miami and Brooklyn, but with Haiti always in mind.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.

In “Days of Miracle and Wonder,” Ashley Kahn revisits the “trials and triumphs” of Paul Simon’s “Graceland.”

“Lots of white space on a page. Short paragraphs that move.” This month Apple TV airs Season 2 of a series based on his 2016 sci-fi thriller “Dark Matter.”

In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.

The best-selling author Hannah Whitten recommends thrillers, horror, fantasy novels and more about the misdeeds of the ultrawealthy (and their comeuppance).

In “The Book of Chuck,” clairvoyance is a terrible inheritance.