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It wouldn’t be mid-to-late December without a series of “best of” articles coming out from every outlet that covers culture—and who am I to buck that trend? I get to read dozens of books every year ...

LicoBiTs’ second all-new otome visual novel. “UN:LOGICAL” is a virtual reality game that can only be played by invitation. In this virtual world—where touch, taste, and pain feel real—adorable ...

In 2000, at the end of that year’s last Comiket convention, Type-Moon released Tsukihime, an eroge visual novel about vampires. 25 years later, you can now play its remake, Tsukihime - A piece of blue ...

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Agent HQ provides a single location for managing both local and remote coding agents and introduces a plan agent that breaks down complex tasks into steps before coding. The latest update to the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nearly a decade after his 2016 novel, “All That Man Is,” was passed over for the Booker Prize, David Szalay has ...

For J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, the people in the publishing world who compile best-of lists may as well be dementors. Here is Chicago librarian Rachel Strolle’s, who ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

Dispatch advertises itself as a workplace superhero comedy, but this irreverent debut from AdHoc studio is so much more than your standard release. Dispatch is, in many ways, the revival of a whole ...

The plot, like those of Bennett’s other books, can meander; at times it is confusingly opaque. The narrator has a post-breakup correspondence with Xavier and exchanges emails with her former ...