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Two reports from advocacy groups show that book banning continues at higher rates than before the pandemic. Newly implemented state laws are impacting the numbers this year.

As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.

The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, plus celebrity memoirs by Al Pacino, Cher and Ina Garten.

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans.

Adventures in Russian literature; a novel of domestic discontent.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter and the right utensils.