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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.

In his new collection of essays, Mr. Hemon writes about growing up in Sarajevo and his life in Chicago.

Readers respond to a recent review of Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.”

The author, most recently, of “Poems to Learn by Heart” loves books about the Inquisition and the crusades, but feels “guilty reading bad things about the Catholic Church.”

Grigory Chkhartishvili, better known by the pen name Boris Akunin, says he will write a multivolume history of Russia.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Philip Hensher on the fading art of writing longhand.

Constance Wilde was more than just a long-suffering wife.

Lucy Ellmann’s novel follows the romantic escapades of a New York plastic surgeon who discovers his inner feminist.

Two novellas, three stories, shared memories.

Clive Davis reviews his career as a hit-maker.

Alex Berenson’s superspy tries to rescue four relief workers kidnapped by a Somali warlord.

In Renata Adler’s reissued novels, vignette follows vignette.

A summer home both shelters and isolates the family in Elizabeth Graver’s multigenerational novel.

A 10-year-old with a hallucinatory consciousness is reclaimed from a monastery by his mother.

Michael Moss reveals how food companies use science to maximize our cravings for their products.

Pat Summitt, the renowned women’s basketball coach who won eight national championships at the University of Tennessee, is now a No. 1 best-selling author, with the memoir “Sum It Up.”

Sarah Manguso’s tastes have always run to memoirs that test and topple the boundaries of the form.