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In “Brutalities: A Love Story,” Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt — and shows herself some compassion.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.

“I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Premonition.” “It’s the best feeling.”

“Going Infinite,” Lewis’s new book about the disgraced crypto billionaire, defies the author’s winning formula of upbeat narratives and unsung genius.

In his memoir “The Controversialist,” Martin Peretz reflects on his long tenure as publisher and editor of The New Republic.

“Menewood” continues Nicola Griffith’s epic portrayal of the abbess Hild of Whitby.

For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.

The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas.