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Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”

The action against a Booker Prize winner was the latest in a growing crackdown on free expression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.

Our crime columnist, Sarah Weinman, on four buzzy October releases.

Our crime columnist, Sarah Weinman, on four buzzy October releases.

As the former White House aide goes on a book tour, frankly discussing the men who felt free to comment on and assess her appearance, she has a more relaxed look.

An anthology that combines new work with selections from The Brownies’ Book, a children’s magazine launched by W.E.B. Du Bois, is bringing its mission to bear in a new national context.

The filmmaker’s new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” prompts a critic’s incredulity.

“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?

With the republication of “The Children’s Bach,” a 1984 novel, and “This House of Grief,” a 2014 account of a murder trial, the Australian writer Helen Garner is ripe for discovery by American readers.