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An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.

A rigorously researched guide on Chinese cooking, a choose-your-own adventure for pasta lovers and more, as tested by New York Times Cooking and the Food desk.

The act of being inspired by others is akin to collecting pebbles of experience, letting them escape into flowing consciousness and resurfacing them again in one’s writing.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year.

Five collections our columnist loved this year.

Long before Florida Man became a meme, he mined the Sunshine State’s weirdness for enough material to fill 26 darkly funny crime novels.

From witch stories to near-future noir, here are the year’s 10 best speculative books.

Here are the novels our columnist loved most.