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The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso’s novel “Liars” may or may not be a reliable source about her monster of a husband.

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age.

In Stephen Kearse’s new novel, “Liquid Snakes,” two epidemiologists race to stop a grieving biochemist who has been killing people after the stillborn death of his daughter.

“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human.

Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own sales force.

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse.

In Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “Little Rot,” two exes trying to recover after a breakup inadvertently stumble into a dark, disturbing and dangerous side of Nigeria.

Josephine Rowe’s slim, atmospheric novel “Little World” connects disparate characters through the traveling corpse of a young girl.

In the 2022 Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s husband, while tearing her apart.