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A roundup of international fiction from Congo, Sweden, Bolivia and India.

Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.

A new play in London portrays the beloved children’s author as a rounded character, while making no apology for his bigotry.

Bedlam’s sharply irreverent production of Emily Breeze’s comedy, a riff on “Pride and Prejudice,” has period dress, contemporary vernacular and a magnetic Mrs. Bennet.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.

A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today.

Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan talk about Helen Fielding’s novelthe, and Gregory Cowles and Juliana Barbassa discuss all things translation.

He directed the Italian American studies program at Queens College — the first of its type in American academia — and wrote about his ethnic group in “Blood of My Blood.”

He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.

When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.