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Viet Thanh Nguyen's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer" delivers more of a good thing.       

Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” is a book that moves in personal and unexpected directions.

There are nostalgic pleasures aplenty in stories published in 1930s pulp magazines or dramatized in 1940s radio programs.

The acclaimed poet was longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame.

In his third book, "Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America's Iron River," Ioan Grillo tackles the issue of proliferating firearms.       

Sonia Faleiro’s investigation illuminates the role of “honor” in the lives of the nation’s girls.

Biographer Hermione Lee tackles the towering career of Tom Stoppard, and Morgan Rogers' "Honey Girl" is sure to charm.       

"There is no one Black experience," says LaKeshia N. Darden, chair of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury. Meet 50 Black YA authors to start reading now.       

Allegations of abuse, creative theft and dashed dreams of success. Here's a look inside the pages of incendiary new bio "The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee."        

Full-cast productions can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play.

Patricia Lockwood ("Priestdaddy") explores life online, and off, in her first novel, "No One Is Talking About This."        

Gershom Gorenberg reveals the intelligence campaign that shaped the war and the region.

Lauren Oyler’s “Fake Accounts” and Patricia Lockwood’s “No One Is Talking About This” critique our Internet-attenuated lives.

Didion’s writing has often revealed what was previously hidden, parsed what was unconscious.

“The House on Vesper Sands” and “The Historians” feature appealing characters, who are the true draw of any well-told tale.

If you're a fan of Oates, you'll be a fan of her latest story collection, "The (Other) You," even if these stories bum you out.