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Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book.”

“I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

Tom Lamont’s debut novel, “Going Home,” considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it.

In “What Happened to the McCrays?” middle-aged high school sweethearts share an unbearable history.

The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families across four generations.