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The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.

The very-online writer, whose “¡Hola Papi!” advice column recently became a book, talks about folding knives, chili sauce and “Hounds of Love.”

In “Songbooks,” the scholar and critic Eric Weisbard surveys music writing from the 1700s to today, with special attention to voices on the margins.

The first story collection from the author of “Real Life” features unspoken desires bubbling up when least appropriate.

An excerpt from “Filthy Animals: Stories,” by Brandon Taylor

Her books depicted a cozy Jewish family on the Lower East Side. In real life, her back story was more complicated.

Elias Rodriques’s debut novel, “All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running,” follows a young man searching for answers after the death of his high school flame.

A selection of recent poetry titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

Liang Hong’s “China in One Village” recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.

Folklore informs Mariana Leky’s novel “What You Can See From Here,” which follows a motley cast of townspeople faced with a crisis.

This young adult version of a Spanish folk tale redefines what picture books can be. Reader discretion is advised.

In “Shape,” Jordan Ellenberg argues for the importance of geometry as the underlying structure of reality.

His many characters included Detective Mole, Sherlock Chick and Miss Mallard, a crime-solving duck who got her own television series.

Recent novels, philosophical inquiries, young adult and romance fiction, films and television shows join a robust academic literature to explore the term and its limits.

Some independent shops flout the new limits on free expression. Others try to come to terms with them. For readers, they offer a sense of connection in a changed city.

The Irish entertainer is known for his freewheeling talk show, but in his novel “Home Stretch” he explores what it’s like for a gay man to return to his home and find both it and himself wholly transformed.

Juneteenth and Father’s Day.

The longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, who died on Wednesday at 86, was most animated by divided selves and the inherent complexity of human relationships.

In “Drunk,” Edward Slingerland plays devil’s advocate for the pleasure and utility of Dionysian abandon.

The novelist’s remarks went viral after she criticized former students as well as “social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion.”

In his new novel, “The Netanyahus,” Joshua Cohen imagines a visit by the scholar Benzion Netanyahu to an Ivy League school in the late 1950s.

Packer talks about “Last Best Hope,” and Suzanne Simard discusses “Finding the Mother Tree.”

The arrival of our buzzing summer friends also brings buggy bookish allusions.

A new book of photography features the intimate moments of queer dads in America.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

“I strongly endorse the idea of going beyond the verbal art forms traditionally marked as ‘literature,’ but everybody already knows about Bob Dylan. They should have given it to Lynda Barry.”

In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at a compilation of Black cartoonists and a history of female slave rebellions.

Her subjects ranged widely, but she took special aim at journalism itself, writing that every journalist “knows that what he does is morally indefensible.”

Sandeep Jauhar offers a tour of books about Alzheimer’s, from the search for a cure to fictionalized accounts of living with this scourge.

Sotheby’s has agreed to postpone a highly anticipated auction as a consortium tries to raise $21 million to acquire a “lost” private library for the British public.

The author, 98, wrote one of the classic novels of Depression-era Black life, “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” and its themes still resonate today.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

This poem by Sonia Sanchez will astonish and alarm you.

The podcast host and debut author tells a difficult story in her best-selling memoir, “Somebody’s Daughter.” But there are glimmers of brightness.

Gerald Marzorati’s “Seeing Serena” follows her across the globe over the course of one year.

President Donald J. Trump had pressured the department to use its legal powers to stop his former national security adviser from publishing embarrassing details about him.