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The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans.

Adventures in Russian literature; a novel of domestic discontent.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter and the right utensils.

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.”

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism. He was also a dermatologist.

Skeletons, ghosts and more: Mike Mignola has a show at a Chelsea gallery, and it might not be what fans expect.