Molly Young

In This Tokyo Rock Novel, the Cool Kids Are Not All Right

James Richardson’s aphorisms; Nora Lange’s novel “Us Fools”

“Demon Copperhead” reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”

Hilde Soliani makes feral scents that evoke everything from oysters to opera houses.

Rachel Lyon’s novel “Fruit of the Dead” updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island.

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker.

The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, is a mecca for one of the world’s most enduring, and ubiquitous, typefaces. Meet Giambattista Bodoni, the “prince of typography.”