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Belle Burden shook off her natural reserve to turn her viral divorce essay into “Strangers,” a bracing memoir.

In “Catapult,” an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.

In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the Middle East.

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is accusing a private hospital in Lagos of administering an overdose of a sedative, prompting an outpouring of complaints by Nigerians about their health care system.

His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.

Sara Levine’s “The Hitch” is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all.