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The fruits of a free-ranging reading week were a fascinating book on China and a political science paper that explains a quirk of far-right politics.

The Utah Republican’s announcement that he would retire coincided with the publication of a forthcoming book based on extensive interviews in which he slammed his party and the Senate.

“Language, specific to the writer’s voice, rhythmic, weighted, moves me,” says the author, whose new novel is “Night Watch.” “Language is always the living soul of a narrative.”

A historian as well, he challenged, with a muckraker’s spirit, the political and corporate establishment of a country he adopted after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.

An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.

The author of “Happiness Falls” explains how — and why — she chose a quote from “The Little Prince” to set the tone for her novel.

In its first half-century, Ms. magazine upended norms, disrupted the print world and made trouble. It was a start.

In his novel “Beyond the Door of No Return,” David Diop explores the secret life of Michel Adanson, who cataloged the natural world during the Enlightenment.

The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.