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Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives?

This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a supplementary guide.

Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America’s favorite side hustle: landlording.

“My Name Is Barbra,” her long-awaited (and rather enormous) autobiography, doesn’t have an index. But here are the best bits.

We want to know what stuck with you this year. What were the best things you watched, read and heard?

Three new books explore the how, why and what that keep our world moving.

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.

Our critic traces J.D. Vance’s shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.

The author of “Gothikana” isn’t going to reveal much. But she will share a useful tip for writing and life.

Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.”