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The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.

Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What’s not to love?

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

An English translation of Ada Boni’s “The Talisman of Happiness,” an indispensable guide for Italian home cooks since the 1920s, is finally on its way.

Readers suggest books that help make sense of the nation’s most populous state.

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, speculative true crime, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here’s how we checked it off.

The latest from a Nobel laureate, a “Hunger Games” prequel and more.