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Known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, the author talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life.

With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.

The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side.

The “One Tree Hill” actor has written a memoir of the decade she spent beholden to the Big House Family — and her escape.

The author’s Southern Reach trilogy, which began with “Annihilation” in 2014, now has a fourth installment, a prequel.

Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.

The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.

Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.