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How Do You Like Your History? With Imaginative Leaps or Grounded in Fact?

A New Novel After the Nobel? No Pressure, Says Abdulrazak Gurnah.

The Archives Tried to Erase Her Family. She Tells Their Story.

When ‘We’ Becomes ‘I’: The Case for Divorce

Don’t Tell, but Mark Greaney Is No Fan of ‘Goldfinger’

A New Book Gives Lorne Michaels the Founding Father Treatment

An Esteemed Biographer Puts Her Own Life in the Spotlight

Elinor Lipman Wants to ‘Get My Characters Out of the House’

This Josephine Baker Oral History Has Never Been Published Here. Now We Know Why.

Hanif Kureishi Wonders What Dostoyevsky’s Characters Did in Bed

The Ironic Fight Against Liberty in the American Revolution

The Absurd, Dizzying Humanity of a 20th-Century Genius

Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.

Graham Norton Isn’t Insulted to Be Called an ‘Undemanding’ Writer

Anita Desai Has Put Down Roots, but Her Work Ranges Widely

Pregnant With One Child and 295,233 Words

8 Books to Read About Jimmy Carter’s Life and Legacy

Audiobooks to Cook (or Eat) To, From Ina Garten to David Chang

‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing

This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice