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Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.

In his new book, the organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares counterintuitive strategies for higher achievement.

She published her first book at 17 and has since become one of France’s best-known novelists. NDiaye is not interested in easy — and she expects her readers to work, too.

In Jennifer McMahon’s new novel, “My Darling Girl,” a woman must protect her family from a terrible darkness lurking in her abusive mother.

Acclaimed as one of America’s greatest living writers, she blended deeply personal material with themes of mythology and nature.

New fiction by Chloe Aridjis, Ghassan Zeinnedine and Megan Kamalei Kakimoto ranges from the fabulist to the vaguely autofictional.

Reading Eve Babitz, a “buttoned up” writer discovers she has more in common with the protagonist than she thinks.

A prominent cookbook author, critic and memoirist, she reinvigorated the dishes of her native France with a globe-trotter’s sensibility.

The author reads her latest novel about literary prestige, empire and a case of false identity that captivated 19th-century England.

The novelist is competing with giants like William Faulkner, while mapping territory all her own.