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​The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”

The awards are being announced this week.

In Jacqueline Harpman’s novel “Orlanda,” the repressed half of a woman’s soul jumps into the body of a man. Chaos ensues.

Sharing the plot of the 20th “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book had him cringing at the memory of ruining a birthday surprise. Also surprising: the O.J. Simpson book on his shelves.

Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.

Our columnist on notable new releases.

Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history.

In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.

To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start.