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Morton discusses his first work of nonfiction, and Rachel Careau talks about translating “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri,” by Colette.

“I am drawn to the idea of continuing to bear witness to that horrible time,” says the actor, whose new book is “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up.”

In “41-Love,” Scarlett Thomas writes about rediscovering the sport in middle age and becoming addicted to the competition.

Kris Maher, who writes about the environmental problems facing a county in West Virginia, talks about how working on his book changed his understanding of Appalachia.

In “Peril,” Woodward and his co-writer Robert Costa take readers up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the early days of the Biden administration.

In “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” the novelist and her stand-ins chew over questions about fame, sex, idealism and other subjects.

In “Four Thousand Weeks,” a self-help book skeptical of self-help, Oliver Burkeman offers perspective on how we might spend the fleeting time that we get.

Andrew Haswell Green accomplished a lot in 19th-century New York, but he was an enigma even in his own time. In “The Great Mistake,” Jonathan Lee imagines his way into Green’s mind.

With “Albert and the Whale,” the biographer and critic Philip Hoare trains his mind on the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, then lets it drift to art history, nature writing and elements of memoir.

Named to the top job in 2018, her resignation follows a handful of personnel changes at literary publications.

From “American Dirt” to “Apropos of Nothing” to “A Promised Land,” here is what happened in the literary and publishing world’s unforgettable 2020.

This anthology, edited by Phillip Lopate, offers a selection of 100 essays from colonial times to the present, about a wide range of philosophical and practical subjects.

The Pulitzer-winning playwright, whose new book, “Homeland Elegies,” comes out this month, succeeds the novelist Jennifer Egan at the literary organization.

Lily King’s new book, “Writers & Lovers,” features an aspiring novelist coming into her own, artistically and romantically.

New novels from abroad include a Northern Irish homage to the “Iliad,” a Norwegian family drama and an Italian dystopian tale.

Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel “Malina” is as much a tormented existential thriller as it is a haunted war story by the daughter of an Austrian Nazi.

Emilie Pine talks about her remarkably frank essay collection, a best seller in Ireland that confronts infertility, sexual violence and other taboos.

The third annual Believer Festival was just the latest sign of life for a burgeoning books scene in the desert.

Emily Greenhouse, 32, and Gabriel Winslow-Yost, 33, will lead the magazine, and a longtime contributor, Daniel Mendelsohn, will assume a newly created role.

Jessie Greengrass discusses her first novel, about a woman remembering her mother and grandmother as she decides whether to have children herself.