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His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.

In Monica Wood’s rich new novel, “How to Read a Book,” death, prison and poetry become the catalyst for new beginnings.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

In Maud Ventura’s “My Husband,” a Frenchwoman cannot stop surveilling her spouse: “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day.”

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital.

Our columnist on four standout releases.

In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.