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When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.”

In Armando Lucas Correa’s thriller “The Silence in Her Eyes,” vision impairment only enhances a young woman’s sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.

The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.

“The Divorcées” whisks readers to a ranch in Reno, where unhappy wives once stayed to establish Nevada residency so they could file for divorce.

Even when the Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz worked within mass-market forms, he veered toward playful disorder.

“The Morningside” reckons with climate change and its fallout while finding hope in the stories we preserve.

Anna Shechtman’s new memoir-history hybrid, “The Riddles of the Sphinx,” explores the gender politics behind one of the world’s most popular word games.

Two new books explore the liberal struggle against the illiberal currents that have plagued American progress.

In “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself,” Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.