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Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.
“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.
Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
In “I Seek a Kind Person,” Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.
His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.
“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.
Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.
In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.
Austin Kelley gently lampoons high-minded magazines and the fragile men who work at them in his debut novel, “The Fact Checker.”
He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and ’70s, then shifted to become a prominent street photographer.
Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel.
To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has left an enduring mark on American culture.
A mythical lion cub stuck in the modern world must harness the power of stories to save his family and return home.
“Poet in the New World” introduces readers to the often overlooked early work of the Polish master Czeslaw Milosz.
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