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In these new romance novels, weddings aren’t bows tied on at the finish — they’re the starting point.

A South Korean female assassin, an Italian child of deaf parents, an intercaste marriage in Tamil Nadu.

The New-York Historical Society award goes to Alan Taylor, whose “American Republics” emphasizes the fragility of the American experiment from the beginning.

In her new essay collection, “Run Towards the Danger,” the actress and filmmaker examines intensely personal stories she’s still sorting out for herself.

“Pure Colour” is a cosmological origin story, told through the eyes of a dissociative and grieving aesthete.

A 1976 book of photographs and text traced her year at the School of American Ballet and made her famous. But a darker story lay underneath.

Jennifer Croft, who translates the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, is leading a push for her peers and their work to receive more recognition.

In “A Molecule Away From Madness,” Sara Manning Peskin explains how neurological aberrations can kill.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

She has written about some of our biggest modern-day conundrums: whether to have children, how to live an authentic life. With her new novel, “Pure Colour,” she considers how love and art can heal.