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Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence.

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Her Book Is About Belonging. She’s Struggling With the Idea.

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Hunter Biden’s Memoir: 7 Takeaways From ‘Beautiful Things’

Robert Hershon, Artful Poet Who Published Poets, Dies at 84

Joan Walsh Anglund, 95, Dies; Her Children’s Books Touched Millions

In Gabriela Garcia’s ‘Of Women and Salt,’ five generations of mothers and daughters fight to stay afloat

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Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Historical Fiction Unites the African Diaspora

‘Good Company,’ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s follow-up to ‘The Nest,’ is a sweeter novel with higher stakes

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New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People

‘Of Women and Salt,’ by Gabriela Garcia: An Excerpt

A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices

From Cuba to Miami, These Women Contend With Abusive Men and Countries

Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down

Why Are Migratory Birds Vanishing Out of the Sky?

Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’

The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image

An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights

Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom

In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy

Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and America’s Most Liberal Generation

Scholastic Halts Distribution of Book by ‘Captain Underpants’ Author

Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation

Would the Pandemic Stop Paul Theroux From Traveling?

Beverly Cleary, through Ramona, captured the essence of childhood

Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It

Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104

Beverly Cleary, beloved author who chronicled schoolyard scrapes and feisty kids, dies at 104

John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places

Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity

Sarah Pinborough, author of ‘Behind Her Eyes,’ talks about that controversial twist

Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators.

8 Picture Books About Imagination and Identity

Larry McMurtry, award-winning novelist who pierced myths of his native Texas, dies at 84

The Essential Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84

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The elite Baltimore cops who became criminals

We’re constantly fooling ourselves — and that’s (mostly) okay