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The best-selling novelist refuses to yield when it comes to writing software, but she’s had a bit of a change of heart on Barnes & Noble.

A conversation with the biographer Mary Gabriel, whose substantial new book offers a comprehensive and surprising look at the pop star’s life and career.

Cat Bohannon’s “Eve” is an opinionated clapback against centuries of male-centric evolutionary history.

An illustrated ode to Richard Adams’s novel “Watership Down.”

In a new memoir, Rich Paul, known to many for his long association with LeBron James, details his difficult upbringing and the valuable lessons it taught him.

As a new novella and a new edition of “The Tale of Despereaux” remind us, her stories demand a lot from young readers, but the rewards can be magical.

A selection of recently published books.

In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated relationships.

The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.

McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.