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The horror novelist talks about his new book and his swerve into the realm of westerns and historical fiction.

Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.

Two petitions sought to block Barnes & Noble and independent booksellers from selling “Gender Queer” and “A Court of Mist and Fury” to minors in Virginia because of the books’ sexual content.

“Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.

What do we want from the books we take with us when we travel? They can be a destination, a guide — or the tether that restores us to ourselves.

In Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, a boy from rural India becomes a tech mogul in a world consumed by Big Tech. What seemed impossible, she said, has become real, in life and in technology.

“I felt I was living through those moments with every word I spoke,” the Oscar-winning actor says of her new memoir, “Finding Me.”

She was not quite 11 when train convoys organized by a London stockbroker carried her and hundreds of other Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

In “Truly, Madly,” Stephen Galloway writes about one of the 20th century’s most glamorous couples, training an eye on Leigh’s mental health struggles.

In addition to writing an acclaimed biography, she encouraged a generation of young writers, predominantly women of color, to pursue careers in nonfiction.