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Musical adaptations of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Lord of the Rings” as well as a new Samuel D. Hunter play were on our critic’s itinerary.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet.

Recognized literary translators — Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them — are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves.

American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.

A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.

The book has sold more than 750,000 copies since July 15, his publisher said.

There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors.

Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.

Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.