“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion.

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The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.

A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.

In John Dufresne’s new book, “My Darling Boy,” a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids.

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.

After years of seemingly one-way traffic, anglicisms from ginger to kerfuffle are having their moment stateside

After years of seemingly one-way traffic, anglicisms from ginger to kerfuffle are having their moment stateside

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