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Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.

James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” has been meaningful for “generations of queer people (including for me),” says the novelist, who argues for “less facile” literary conversations. His new book is “Small Rain.”

“Death at the Sign of the Rook” is the sixth novel in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie mystery series. What keeps her coming back?

The Supreme Court justice’s memoir is deeply personal and full of hope, and highlights a fairy-tale marriage to her college boyfriend.

He pioneered the bookstore-as-superstore, a retail behemoth that dominated the industry before Amazon overtook it with its online reach.

His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

Buenos Aires is a literary city: Its residents like to boast about its many bookstores and independent publishers. Samanta Schweblin suggests which books and authors to start with.

Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.

Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby.

Almost 20 years after Franklin Leonard created the Black List, which has helped little-known screenwriters break into Hollywood, it is expanding into fiction.