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“A collection of these issues would undoubtedly be my favorite book that no one has heard of,” says the author of the memoir “Stay True,” one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2022. “If you are reading this, please write me!”

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

In “The Militia House,” by John Milas, an abandoned building in Afghanistan captivates and terrifies the Marines stationed nearby.

His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.

New short fiction by Agustina Bazterrica, Joyce Carol Oates, Nishanth Injam and Kathleen Alcott.

“Blight,” by Emily Monosson, chronicles the threats fungal pathogens pose to humans, animals and plants as the world’s most devastating agents of disease.

In “Jews in the Garden,” the journalist Judy Rakowsky helps a relative uncover the truth of what happened to their family during World War II.

New books by Heidi Julavits, Amelia Possanza and Fern Brady explore a future of self-discovery by mining the past.

“Not Even the Dead,” a novel by Juan Gómez Bárcena, is a transhistorical epic with echoes of Cormac McCarthy and Joseph Conrad.

Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan talk about Helen Fielding’s novelthe, and Gregory Cowles and Juliana Barbassa discuss all things translation.