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Harald Jähner’s “Aftermath” recounts the complications of living in a battered country of rubble and ashes.
The composer John Adams reviews a new book by Jed Perl, “Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts.”
In “Mala’s Cat,” Mala Kacenberg describes her time hiding out in the forest during World War II after losing her family.
“The Final Case” interrogates a father-son relationship alongside a family in crisis.
In “The Zen of Therapy,” Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
“Present Tense Machine,” a novel by Gunnhild Øyehaug, considers two lives, and a familial bond, abruptly rerouted.
In “I Came All This Way to Meet You,” the novelist reveals how far she’s traveled — and how many obstacles she’s cleared — to get where she is now.
In “Lost & Found,” Kathryn Schulz explores the confluence of death, love and hope.
In “Call Me Cassandra,” by Marcial Gala, a young man’s visions make his tortured existence more bearable, but also constrain him.
The idea of something within sight but just out of reach is at the core of Jabari Asim’s new novel, which follows a group of enslaved people living in 1852.
Jonathan Evison’s novel “Small World” follows the lives of several travelers and their 19th-century ancestors.
In Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel, “Olga Dies Dreaming,” a Puerto Rican family reckons with abandonment, secrets and vastly different priorities.
“To Paradise” spans centuries and continents with a dizzying array of themes, situations and motifs.
A selection of books published this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Critics, reporters and editors answer your questions about all things literary.
“To Paradise” spans centuries and continents with a dizzying array of themes, situations and motifs.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Where “Hatchet” was about an earned connection to the land, “Northwind” is about an earned connection to the sea.
Two young Black cousins on the hunt for a missing man collide with an uprising, in Brenda Woods’s “When Winter Robeson Came.”
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