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Ms. Anthony was one of the few women to explore the espionage genre. “I am basically an entertainer, and I’m very proud of it,” she said.

Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” about a 1986 blaze in Los Angeles that damaged or destroyed more than a million books.

Some of New York City’s most sumptuous and meticulously designed homes are celebrated in a new book.

“Rationalization was much easier than recognizing the gravity of what was lost: an innocent, healthy childhood and an introduction to sexuality on my terms.”

Her previous memoirs delved into her parents’ traumatic influence. Now, in “On Sunset,” she introduces the beloved Old World grandparents who raised her.

Carmen Maria Machado's short story collection, "Her Body and Other Parties," which offers a feminist take on horror and fantasy, is being developed as a television series by the FX network. Machado's 2017 collection was one of the most critically acclaimed debuts of the year. It won the National

The photographer’s book “Shade” juxtaposes recent news events with photos of his former boss Barack Obama.

The Library of Congress says it has digitized the largest collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s papers in the world.

In “Dare to Lead,” the researcher and TED Talk all-star turns her attention to the boardroom.

Judith Newman’s latest Help Desk column ventures into the minefield of marriage, dating, desire — and divorce.

The judges cited her use of dark humor to explore tribalism, state-sponsored terrorism, social division and sexual and political oppression.

Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for fiction at a ceremony in London on Tuesday, the first Northern Irish writer to do so.        

In “The Poison Squad,” Deborah Blum tells the story of the early-20th-century U. S. D. A. inspector who changed the way we think about food.

Marielle Heller directs a true story of literary fraud, set amid the bookstores and gay bars of early ’90s Manhattan.

New books by Jose Antonio Vargas, José Olivarez and Julissa Arce explore what being part of mixed-status families, in which either they or their relatives were undocumented, has meant to them.

"The Wonky Donkey" has been out-selling other books, thanks to a viral video of Scottish grandmother reading the 2009 book to her grandson.