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Whether you first knew him as one of the “Two Wild and Crazy Guys” on Saturday Night Live or as one of the investigating podcasters on Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” chances are you’ve seen ...

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart. Miriam Toews’s new ...

STEVE MARTIN WRITES THE WRITTEN WORD: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin. By Steve Martin. Grand Central Publishing. 432 pages. $30. Whether you first knew him as one of the “Two Wild and ...