‘Welcome to the New World,’ by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan: An Excerpt

A new graphic novel expands on the Pulitzer-winning series about the challenges a family of Syrian refugees faced in America.

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Book Review: ‘Jack,’ by Marilynne Robinson

The fourth novel in Robinson’s series about the residents of Gilead, Iowa, features a fraught love during the Jim Crow era.

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8 Picture Books About Ordinary Kids’ Everyday Activism

From making soup to creating a butterfly garden, everyone can do something.

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Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers

Publishing is becoming a winner-take-all game. Nobody dominates it like Madeline McIntosh and Penguin Random House.

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Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real

These four thrillers may be gussied up with future settings, but the problems they confront are rooted in today’s world.

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Stephen F. Cohen, Influential Historian of Russia, Dies at 81

He chronicled Stalin’s tyrannies and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he was an enthusiastic admirer of Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Winston Groom, Author of ‘Forrest Gump,’ Dies at 77

He wrote the 1986 novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks. Another book was a finalist for a Pulitzer.

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Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

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Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction

Akhtar discusses “Homeland Elegies” and Marc Lacey talks about “Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, and “The Violence Inside Us,” by Chris Murphy.

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National Book Awards Names 2020 Nominees

Fiction contenders include Brit Bennett, the author of “The Vanishing Half”; Randall Kenan, a beloved writer who died in August; and Douglas Stuart, a debut novelist who is also a Booker Prize finalist.

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