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Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.

Our reviewer read these stories on a train, as the world rolled by out the window.

Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

“I get real geek joy out of learning something new,” says the imprint’s vice president and publisher. She’s proud to have broadened the definition of a classic during her tenure.

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.