NYT Books

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Jon Fosse’s “Septology” is an extraordinary series of novels tracking an aging artist’s reckoning with the divine.

In a settlement agreement, the estate of Harper Lee, who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird,” renewed the movie sequel and remake rights of Cecilia Peck and other successors and heirs to the makers of the original 1962 film.

Haigh’s latest book, “Mercy Street,” is set at a women’s clinic in Boston where the threat of violence is pervasive.

The Honresfield Library, which includes rarely seen manuscripts by the Brontës, Robert Burns, Walter Scott and Jane Austen, will be acquired for the British public.

His writing for The Village Voice and other publications helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same planes as jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

His writing for The Village Voice and other publications helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same planes as jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

It’s not easy, but it’s familiar.

In “Our Country Friends,” seven friends and one nemesis gather at an estate in the Hudson Valley to wait out what they’re sure will be a quick blip in their convenient and prosperous lives.

His 200 books, among them “Hatchet” and “Dogsong,” inspired generations with their tales of exploration, survival and the bloody reality of the natural world.