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Charlotte Wood’s “The Natural Way of Things” conjures a not-so-implausible world in which girls and young women are thrown into prison for their sexual shames.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.

The work of the novelist Colleen Hoover has become hot property in Hollywood. Here’s why studios clamor to adapt her books.

Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.

From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.

Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, “Night Night Fawn,” approaches a closed-minded matriarch with compassion, even at her child’s expense.

His best-known work, “The Wall Jumper,” proved prescient in its contention that the country would remain split even after reunification.

The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”

“Nonesuch,” the new novel by Francis Spufford, conjures a plot laced with magic to change the course of history.