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The Saucy Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London

David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood

Kathy Hourigan Is Retiring, but Not From Robert Caro

What Wonders Do Ray Bradbury’s Letters Reveal?

For Kate Christensen, Bad Prose Can Never Yield a Great Book

A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse

David Mamet, a.k.a. ‘Embittered Dave,’ Would Like a Word

The Right Book Can Make Sigrid Nunez Miss Her Subway Stop

Mark Kurlansky Wishes More Authors Would Denounce War

A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

Tracy K. Smith Collects Books About the Supernatural

The Filmmaker and the Superspy

Even for Two Pros, Collaboration Was No Picnic

For Stephanie Land, College Was the School of Hard Knocks

Jeff Tweedy Used to Browse Encyclopedias for Hours on End

New Books Try to Offer Shelter From the Storm of Dementia

Henry Winkler’s Dream Dinner Guests Wrote for Stage, Page and TV

Desperate to Make Her Mother Smile, Nina Simon Wrote a Book

The Father-Son Struggle That Helped Ensure IBM’s Success