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In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.

New books from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard and Scott Guild.

Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.

The writer and public intellectual reads “Doppelganger,” a searching exploration of uncanny doubles both personal and political.

An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.

In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.

In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.

Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.

He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.