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Lisa Tuttle’s “My Death” is short, uncanny, provocative, and pays tribute to a body of forgotten literature.

These spine-tingling thrillers involve talking animals, vampires and zombies, supernatural monsters and serial killers.

The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.

“My favorite author was Madeleine L’Engle,” says the National Book Award-winning historian, whose new book is “Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.” “In middle school I would ride the city bus to the public library

In “The Upside-Down World,” Benjamin Moser roams the galleries of the Netherlands in search of clues to the artists’ biographies.

Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”

The action against a Booker Prize winner was the latest in a growing crackdown on free expression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.

Our crime columnist, Sarah Weinman, on four buzzy October releases.

Our crime columnist, Sarah Weinman, on four buzzy October releases.