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

Five collections our columnist loved this year.

Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.

The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.

For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.

He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.

A torrent of canceled events is threatening Germany’s reputation as a haven for artistic freedom.

The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker goes to a comic version of “Dracula” that is appearing Off Broadway.

The publisher’s new board of directors has expertise spanning the life cycle of a book.

The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end.