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Michael Cunningham’s 2005 novel jumps between centuries and genres as it explores the yearning for transcendence and the importance of noticing.

The psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones writes about the different varieties of spite, and argues that the emotion “can be a force for good,” if deployed strategically.

“Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original “Hunger Games” novels.

Sweltering conditions in Europe have come earlier than expected this year but the bad news is, they’re the shape of things to come.

The “true story” of a woman with multiple personalities was a 1973 sensation and is still in print 50 years later. Why do such lurid tales hold their grip?

Rax King can allude to Updike and Odysseus, but in these essays she is far more concerned with Creed, Snooki and the Cheesecake Factory.

Drive and cry.

Hervé Le Tellier’s novel, a runaway best seller and prize winner in France, is about the strange and mysterious fate of the passengers on a flight from Paris to New York.

Unable to support his family with his children’s books, Aaron Blabey was ready to give up. Then he came up with the concept that’s now a best seller and an animated movie.

Shipping delays, printer backups and worker shortages are forcing publishers to postpone new titles and leaving booksellers in a lurch for some old ones.