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Our romance columnist recommends four new books.

Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining new book, “The Path to Paradise,” tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career.

Need a little diversion? Our crime columnist has plenty of books to recommend.

Need a little diversion? Our crime columnist has plenty of books to recommend.

Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard’s debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger.

Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.

In “The Bars Are Ours,” Lucas Hilderbrand offers a transcontinental look at a half-century of queer nightlife in America.

The rollout of “Endgame” caused a scandal after a quickly withdrawn translation named family members said to have asked about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan’s future son.

The author of the Percy Jackson series (newly adapted for Disney+ this month) is looking for anthologies of Indigenous folklore and mythology, too.

A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.