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Tony Hillerman’s daughter had her own dreams for one of the stars of his novels. Now she carries on the family tradition, with a few twists.

The artist, whose monograph “Sarah Sze: Paintings” came out in March and whose exhibition “Timelapse” is at the Guggenheim through September, would invite Stein to dinner with Cervantes and Murasaki Shikibu: “Stein might instigate a … debate on the

Change is hard; everybody knows that. These books might provide the gentle nudge you need.

While writing about LeBron James, the veteran author chose not to probe the identity of his subject’s father. His reasons were personal.

Books by Maryse Condé and Eva Baltasar are among six nominees for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.

In his new memoir, “Enough: Scenes From Childhood,” Stephen Hough recalls his artistic and sexual coming-of-age with a light touch.

“I queued up to get his autograph with nothing but a dollar bill for him to sign,” says the pop star, whose debut novel is “This Bird Has Flown.” “He glanced up, amused, gave me a mischievous half-smile and said, ‘Ah, defacing U.S. currency,’ and

In her new novel, “Biography of X,” Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story.

She was best known for the Holdfast Chronicles, a series about a dystopic world in which once-enslaved women conquer their former male masters.

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