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His new alien thriller has shades of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Minority Report," even "The Post"--but the retreads yield diminishing returns.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

With a relaunch of "Keep the Meter Running," on YouTube, the new-media host is trying to turn TikTok-clip fodder into full-blown TV.

New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.

Try a few of these out at home. It can't hurt, right?

A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.

A sense of make-believe and avoidance pervades Jill Biden's memoir about her tenure as First Lady, Amy Davidson Sorkin writes.

For the chef David Utterback, the sense that Omaha is underestimated is a source of both pride and torment.

America's fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away.

She was a Black and Indigenous woman who became famous for working in white marble. But the focus on her race can obscure the subtle, often contradictory triumphs of her art.