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He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.

In “King of Ashes,” the novelist again returns to rural Virginia as a setting, with a hero who has to face the family he once fled.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

In the novel “Peachaloo in Bloom,” the selfishness belongs to one man. In the picture book “The Wanting Monster,” it belongs to us all.

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives?

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

An expansive new biography of William F. Buckley Jr. traces the eventful life of the conservative activist who intuitively grasped the media’s centrality to politics.

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.

Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo.