I know I can always escape into novels by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick O’Brian and find strength in biographies of past leaders ...

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In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape ...

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László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” is a timely meditation on our impotent slide into authoritarianism.

Stephen King’s “You Like it Darker,” narrated by the magnificent Will Patton, is among this month’s best audiobooks.

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2 THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES (Knopf, $35). By Amy Tan. The best-selling novelist’s essays and sketches document the birds inhabiting the land around her home. 3 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS (Milkweed ...