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In a letter, the University of Washington stated that the evidence presented in the confidential complaint failed to meet the institution’s criteria for plagiarism.

In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.

In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.

Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.

Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.

“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.

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.

In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.

Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.