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From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me.

Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.

Rachel Reid told fans that the disease’s progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated follow-up book would be pushed back.

In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson’s enigmatic novella

In Tayari Jones’s new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they’ve always yearned for.

The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.

Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.