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Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis.

In “The Furies,” the journalist Elizabeth Flock reports the stories of three women who fought back — to defend themselves, other women or their people.

Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it.

The illustrator of classic children’s books like “Frederick” and “Swimmy” was also a painter, sculptor, graphic designer and more.

For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

In her “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series and “Five Survive,” this British author makes herself at home on the East Coast.

Finishing “The Portrait of a Lady” leaves the author of “Old Crimes,” a new story collection, “a little more confident.” Meanwhile, Rod Serling has a place on her shelves.

Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.