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Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.

The author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.

In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs.

Jung Chang’s 1991 memoir, “Wild Swans,” sold millions. Its follow-up delves further into a complex personal and political history.

How a simple catchphrase sums up the president’s theory of executive power.

“It’s my comfort book,” she says of the comic novel about a busted marriage. Her own new thriller is a sequel to “The Last Thing He Told Me.”

“Miracle Children” details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.

The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here’s where to start.

A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.

Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.