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The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, “Aflame,” about his stays at a California monastery.

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.

In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history.

Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book.”

“I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.