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Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Charles Baxter’s new novel is a snapshot of a troubled America, disguised as a speculative comedy.

In “Clean,” a domestic worker for a wealthy family tells her side of a tragic story.

In “Beyond the Big Lie,” Bill Adair worries that the world of spin and fabrication in America has gotten out of hand.

Before there was a feature film or a book, there was Crockett Johnson.

Our columnist on three terrific new books.

Kristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.

American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.

An exploration of the long arc of Baldwin’s career, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the author of “Giovanni’s Room” and “The Fire Next Time.”

The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.