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City of Fiction,” a novel by Yu Hua, follows a man on a search for his missing wife amid bandits and warlords.

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In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began.

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Deadtime Stories Books & Gifts, a bookstore in Lansing's REO Town specializing in everything macabre, spooky and true-crime ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

Tortilla Flat is a tiny town with a roadside stop worth taking a detour. Visit a saloon, a mercantile, a gift shop, a museum, ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

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Prepare to rethink ancient myths, explore the depths of the human mind and do more in these new books by Anders Nilsen, María Medem, Jason Novak and Rachel Ang.