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In her memoir-in-essays, Grace Talusan writes about her experience as an immigrant to the United States, her survival of childhood abuse and returning to visit the Philippines, her native country.

The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “Minutes of Glory” tackles the absurdities, injustices and fortitude of people testing new ways against the old.

Carly Simon is writing an "intimate, vulnerable" memoir about a very famous friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.        

‘Happiness Is Baking’ has favorite recipes from the 102-year-old baker.

Charles Gross, a longtime Princeton professor of neuroscience and husband to author Joyce Carol Oates, has died. He was 83.        

After the "Fifty Shades of Grey" books, author E. L. James has a brand new story with brand new characters. But there's still sex.        

Like “Conversations With Friends,” “Normal People” also traces a young romance in Ireland.

Whether he was writing a Restoration period biography or a book on war poetry, his background in music informed his approach.

After her father died, Katie Arnold became a marathon runner. Her luminous memoir, “Running Home,” explores why.

A Marine whose book about grueling jungle combat during WWII became a basis for the HBO miniseries “The Pacific” has died at his home in Texas.        

Parker’s third collection provides its audience a space to celebrate black excellence and black joy as well as to commiserate about injustice.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Marc Weitzmann’s “Hate” explores the increasing anti-Semitism that has infected French society over the past several years.

“Outside Looking In” explores the LSD-fueled escapades of Timothy Leary and his Harvard graduate students.

Susan Choi's fifth novel shows that teenage drama can require years to repair.        

In “Naamah,” an inventive first novel by Sarah Blake, Noah’s wife recounts the trials — and surprising pleasures — of life on the ark after the Flood.