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When “I’m sorry for your loss” isn’t going to cut it, young readers might find solace, and solidarity, in story time.

In “The Other Side,” the art critic Jennifer Higgie explores artists who found self-expression through different media — and mediums.

True to the promise of its title, “The Storm We Made” kicks up a weather system of epic proportions, ranging from military terror during World War II to domestic warmth.

The 33-year-old librarian from California has become popular on TikTok and Instagram with his upbeat take on libraries.

This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.

Elon Musk thinks a free market of ideas will self-correct. Liberals want to regulate it. Both are missing a deeper predicament.

With its beguiling octopus narrator, Shelby Van Pelt’s “Remarkably Bright Creatures” has notable staying power and is back on the best-seller list — a year and a half after its release.

In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.

“Carnival of Dreams” collects surrealist photo collages by the Hong Kong artist who once designed graphics for “Monty Python.”

From the pop supernova Olivia Rodrigo to a memoirist whose long-held ballet aspirations stalled at the barre, young women gave voice to their longing this year in memorable ways.