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After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.”

Daniel Mason’s novel “North Woods” is a survey of American history told in a hodgepodge of forms and genres.

In her new novel, “Bright Young Women,” Jessica Knoll shifts our attention from a notorious criminal to the women who died by his hand.

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

Jonathan Raban’s “Father and Son” is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history.

Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s new novel follows a white paper box on a disorienting journey through many hands — none of which can open it.

An exhibition about the bohemian set’s “philosophy of fashion” goes deeper than just clothes.

In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.

The second novel by the author of “The Nix” follows a young Chicago couple’s trajectory from pre-internet optimism to 21st-century ennui.

In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles.