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The authors Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett respond to a recent review of their book “Going to Tehran.”

The authors Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett respond to a recent review of their book “Going to Tehran.”

Mr. Achebe, who has died at 82, was a lifelong observer of his home country, Nigeria.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Stephan Talty makes the city of Buffalo both the locale and a major character in his first thriller, “Black Irish.”

The characters in Jim Gavin’s stories live in run-down Los Angeles neighborhoods and are the sons of journeymen and salesmen.

Tamara Shopsin — graphic designer, illustrator, short-order cook — chronicles a year of travel, work and misfortune.

In this novel, a couple escape the devastation wrought by a tornado — for which their community destroys them.

In his memoir, the chef Eddie Huang writes about his family, his love of hip-hop and his efforts to perfect red cooked skirt steak.

This epistolary novel about two writers is based on the correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell.

A writer’s relationship with her mother, both a drug addict and a life force, is at the heart of this memoir.

Sonali Deraniyagala says of her family members killed in the 2004 tsunami: “They were my world. How do I make them dead?”

Zombies, unicorns, shrink rays — an ordinary world is beset by unusual phenomena in Manuel Gonzales’s story collection.

Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In,” No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list, has renewed longstanding debates about the paucity of female executives and the best way to remedy it.

No single issue of the Book Review could contain every one of this season’s significant newcomers.

How to teach literature? With more attention to visceral reactions, and a lot less to theory and historical background.

Sexual transgression is only one means to an end for the characters in Amber Dermont’s stories.

Mary Beth Keane’s novel imagines the harried life of the woman known as Typhoid Mary.

Many of the stories in this collection pursue the theme of infidelity.