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In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans.

Adventures in Russian literature; a novel of domestic discontent.

The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg’s latest novel.

Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter and the right utensils.

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.”

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of societies help people thrive.