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The second in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

Her collection “Crime Against Nature,” which recounts her losing custody of her children after she came out, made her a literary star — and a target of conservatives.

The author of “On Fire Island” wasn’t sure what to expect when she was invited to appear at a “Books & Burlesque” event. Here’s her unblushing report.

Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables.

An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.

Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”

A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.

Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis.

A Hungarian in London; a road trip in Canada.

James Richardson’s aphorisms; Nora Lange’s novel “Us Fools”