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He emerged after World War II as a promising young writer exploring the emotional lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America.

Our crime columnist recommends four newly published books.

Tariq Trotter, the Roots frontman and author of the new book “The Upcycled Self,” loves a period drama when it’s done right.

The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

A glamorous family memoir; a fictional dinner party.

A glamorous family memoir; a fictional dinner party.

At 73, a titan of the romance world talks about how she redefined a genre that was all too easy to dismiss.

Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.

In new collections by Yiyun Li, Claire Keegan, Alexandra Chang and Lore Segal, interpersonal bonds are created and destroyed.

“Going Infinite” may have missed the big takeaway, but it offers at least one undeniable pleasure: deep access.