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In her lively debut novel, “How to Sleep at Night,” Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay couple dials up the campaign rhetoric.

In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an asylum lawyer and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a women’s retreat.

He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.

Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”

Tips from writers, artists and a social worker that might make the practice less daunting.

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.