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His early work took readers to the stars, but his later work ventured into noir mystery and the back roads of the American South.

He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.

Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)

Not many, according to a new collection of correspondence from a science fiction master.

Be wary of the recipes (all that glaze!), but there’s still delight in getting advice about etiquette, guest lists and fondue.

Slip these into your pockets.

New York Times commenters share their favorite books of the year.

John Vaillant, the author of “Fire Weather” (one of our 10 Best Books this year), discusses climate change and the fire that devastated a Canadian petroleum town in 2016.

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women.