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In the Arab world, the poet is viewed as nearer to the Divine presence than other mortals

Daphne Palasi Andreades’s brash and talky novel is about a group of women who grew up together in an outer borough of New York City.

There can be a strange magic in human-made things that are interwoven with our pasts, with our homes, with our great loves.

A reissue of her novel “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont” solidifies the case, Geoff Dyer argues in his review.

Ryuichi Kawamura plans surgery for after national tour

A few weeks ago I attached a question to the Best Books of 2021: What did you like this year? Old or new? Anything? The response was a happy flood of emails with titles.

“Sometimes I read my iPad in the bathtub, which is probably not a great idea.”

The author of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” “The White Album” and “Play It as It Lays” was a prolific writer for The Times.

In “The Replacement Wife,” Darby Kane’s mile-a-minute novel, a young wife tries to get someone — anyone — to take her suspicions seriously.

Through his fictional North Carolina town of Tims Creek, the author brought his buried lineage front and center.