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The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.

A muckraking journalist, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.

Arthur, the former publisher of Knopf, is joining Hachette Book Group to start and run a new imprint.

Some of their favorites didn’t make our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list — but these authors make a case for them anyway.

In Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin,” a rich, chic Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City grapples with displacement and American consumerism.

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.”

Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.

Kevin Barry’s new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century.

In her most recent book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” the best-selling author revels in a newfound preoccupation with birds — and drawing.

Prague has survived wars and political strife — and through it all, its literary scene has thrived. Jaroslav Kalfar, the author of “Spaceman of Bohemia,” recommends books that connect readers to the city.