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James Hannaham’s “Pilot Impostor” is a hybrid work of stories, essays, poems and visual art.

Patchett talks about her new essay collection, and Corey Brettschneider discusses a series of books about liberty.

In “The Age of AI,” Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher explore how far artificial intelligence has come.

Our critic recommends old and new books.

In his new book, “American Comics,” Jeremy Dauber starts in the 19th century before making his way from Superman to “Maus” to offer a grand narrative of comics in America.

In “A Little Hope,” Ethan Joella explores quiet lives in small-town Connecticut.

In “I Dream He Talks to Me,” Allison Moorer reflects on her own experience as the mother of a nonverbal son.

In “The Genius Under the Table,” the artist and writer Eugene Yelchin recalls his boyhood in 1970s Leningrad.

In Gayle Forman’s “Frankie & Bug,” a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, late-1980s Venice Beach is a living, breathing character.

In Richard Rhodes’s “Scientist,” a portrait emerges of Wilson’s ability to focus on the smallest details in nature and recognize the ways in which they connect to larger ecosystems.