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Caitlin Mullen drew on eerie expeditions to the Pine Barrens for her new mystery novel, “Heather.”

In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.

The message in “The Surrendered Wife,” the best-selling book by Laura Doyle, was provocative. Many women credit it with saving their marriages.

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.

Matthew Quick’s memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.

Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, “Unsayable” feels destined for the graduation gift bag.

For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer’s epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.

In “The Mortons,” a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.