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Writing a Book About Grief Isn’t Always Cathartic

Kate Zambreno Takes Issue With What Counts as ‘Literature’

A Food Writer Whose Essays Go Heavy on the Salt and Fire

A Move to England Led Armistead Maupin Back to ‘Tales of the City’

Is America All-Knowing and All-Powerful? Yes, Thought Saddam Hussein.

‘Poor Things,’ the Weird Movie, Was a Weird Novel First

Writer, Mother, Ex-Wife: Leslie Jamison Is a Self in ‘Splinters’

The Filmmaker Ed Zwick Likes Books He Can’t Imagine as Movies

Two Memoirs of Survival and Its Long Shadow

Marissa Meyer Writes the Books She’d Like to Read

Audiobook of the Week: Liev Schreiber Reprises His Role as Martin Baron

A New Martha Graham Biography Is a Study in Grace and Balance

What Do A.A., Burning Man and the Talmud Have in Common? This Guy.

Dan Jones Turned to Fiction After Dinner With George R.R. Martin

Volodymyr Zelensky’s Greatest Performance

José Saramago’s Childhood Memoir Inspires Companion Picture Books

To Be a ‘Palatable Jew’ — in Germany in 1940, in the U.S. Today

Common Credits Ralph Ellison for Pointing Him Toward Music

Holly Jackson’s Maximization of Google Maps

Jill McCorkle Is Getting Over Her ‘Henry James Phobia’