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Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Our critic's picks for going back to school. Plus: an Edith Wharton novella for a last gasp of the season.

Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?

A new run of books embrace the literary potential of underground electronic music.

This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities.

Marlon James's new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single "Rubberz," he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

The best-selling novel by the French author and podcaster Philippe Collin, "The Barman of the Ritz," has a great premise but suffers in the execution.

In the new film "Coyote vs. Acme," starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up. Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike.