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In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries.

Ariel Dorfman’s novel “The Suicide Museum” uses the controversy around a president’s death to examine personal and collective grief.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?

Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City’s criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.

The third novel in the author’s Morning Star series considers how the extreme can engulf the everyday.

In Kate Fagan’s novel, “The Three Lives of Cate Kay,” a best-selling writer decides to reveal the tragedy behind her success.

The new book by Adam Nagourney offers an in-depth look at how a newspaper navigated reporting challenges, financial crises and the transition to the digital era.

“The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.

In “The Trading Game,” Gary Stevenson spills secrets of the City.

Examining artifacts from the archive of British Romanticism, a scholar finds evidence of intimate, if often overlooked, connections to slavery.