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The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

In her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” the famously private “Scandal” star opens up about the family secret that made her question whether she was playing the lead role in her own life.

“I would like not to be a hermit,” the former White House aide says upon the publication of a memoir about her journey down a political rabbit hole.

Answering reader mail with a recommended crime series and a book about architecture.

Derna, which lost entire neighborhoods and thousands of residents in the deluge, has a history as a cultural and intellectual hub as well as a rebellious streak.

In Eliza Clark’s novel “Penance,” a 16-year-old becomes more fascinating in death than she was in life.

In Nora Fussner’s new novel, the jaded producers of “Searching For … the Invisible World” are pulled into a haunted story they initially refuse to believe.

“There is the danger of being Dan Browned,” said the comedian and author of “Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult.” Debtors Anonymous, coffee-shop chitchat and a well-timed pool gag help her stay afloat.

In “The Fall,” Wolff predicts the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s cable network and recounts the recent tumult there through a barrage of fuzzily sourced trash talk.

Analyzing the controversy over hosting duties at the National Book Awards, and interviewing Zadie Smith about her latest novel, “The Fraud.”