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A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.

In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life.

David Grann’s best seller has been turned into an Oscar-nominated film. In this episode, Gilbert Cruz talks about both versions with The Times’s A.O. Scott.

An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

He insisted that there were no morals to be found in the murder of six million Jews, nor was language itself capable of fully describing it.

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

“Where you choose to direct your senses, step by step, matters,” says the eminent nature writer. His 30th book, “With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023,” is out in February.

A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.