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The author discusses his new novel, “Holly,” his views on writing and life, and his own influence on younger generations. And we look at September books.

Her book “Jesus Calling,” written in the voice of Jesus Christ, rose to the top of the Christian publishing best-seller lists. Sequels and spinoffs followed.

As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.

Sarah Lyall discusses the thriller “Whalefall,” by Daniel Kraus, and Joumana Khatib rounds up the month’s other big books.

In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.

At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.

The tropes may be familiar in these romance novels — fake dating, falling for a celebrity — but the books themselves are fresh and beguiling.

An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.

A critic recommends old and new books.

When Hannah Pick-Goslar died last year, Dina Kraft completed the book they’d started together. Now it’s a best seller.