Book Review: 'the Favorites' By Mary Yukari Waters

The Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, who died in his Mexico City home at age 87, was best known for his 1967 masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

A Lewis Carroll letter lamenting attention from fans is bought by the University of Southern California.

Justin Cartwright is the author of more than a dozen novels, a sundry collection whose settings include the writer’s native South Africa, his adopted England, the Middle East, Hitler’s Germany, and Richard Nixon’s San Clemente. Now, here is “Lion Heart,” a novel that follows the fortunes of two more Richards: the present-day, 32-year-old Richard Cathar, whose friends call him Richie, and the 12th-century Richard I, whose admirers call him Lionheart.

A look at The Times’s coverage of Gabriel García Márquez, who died on Thursday at 87.

Mr. García Márquez, a Colombian who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation.

In David Grimm’s “Citizen Canine,” a range of animal-rights advocates note the changing, and heightened, status of pets in contemporary culture.