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A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors.

“A book is made of language,” says the author, whose new novel is “Welcome Home, Stranger.” “How can a house be great if it’s made of shoddy materials? How can a dinner be great if it’s made with terrible ingredients?”

Cait Corrain, a debut fantasy author, admitted to creating fake accounts on Goodreads to bolster her own book and tank the ratings of others.

Philip Norman, the author of books about Paul McCartney, John Lennon and the Beatles as a group, discovers that Harrison was, among other things, a puzzle.

A rigorously researched guide on Chinese cooking, a choose-your-own adventure for pasta lovers and more, as tested by New York Times Cooking and the Food desk.

In “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” the astronomer C. Renée James writes about what we can learn from the more exotic shapes and sounds in outer space.

The father of Jeffrey Dahmer, he wrote a memoir that one reviewer said sought to “peer not just into the soul of his son but into his own.”

A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style, and hint at the ways it might have restrained him.

The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.

The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.