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Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”

Annabelle Tometich’s “The Mango Tree” provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.

“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals.

In Carys Davies’s latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.

He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.

The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.

She’s sold more than 25 million copies, but isn’t slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase.

His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”

Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai weigh in on 22 of the funniest novels since “Catch-22.”

A brother and sister battle for supremacy in 19th-century Newfoundland in Michael Crummey’s latest novel, “The Adversary.”