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“Misery of Love,” by the French virtuoso cartoonist Yvan Alagbé, is a subtle masterpiece of family psychodrama.

Daniel Kraus’s “Angel Down” follows a World War I private who encounters a celestial being on the battlefield.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”

The former president has said he’s been ‘working like hell’ on the book, which will focus on his term in office.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Wild Dark Shore,” Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold.

The Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s new novel pieces together fragments of a trip she took to Paris at the request of a much older photographer.

The poet’s debut novel features estranged sisters and a missing mother who seemingly reappears decades later.

The author of the Myth of Monsters series recommends works that tell, or retell, these strange and wonderful stories for virtually every age group.

The two teenagers in this hard-boiled novel go to work for a narcotics gang and end up in a far more sinister trade.