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Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.

Gary Stewart spent a few years on top, but was largely forgotten after his tragic death in 2003. Now a new generation is rediscovering the onetime “king of honky-tonk.”

The Netflix series and its feature-length finale are based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman. Here’s a reminder of the events of the characters and where their stories left of.

A new collection of the famous graphic designer Seymour Chwast’s work for children “unearths a cache of lost treasures.”

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

For the comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.

Our columnist on three of the year’s most anticipated books.

Jem Calder’s novel, “I Want You to Be Happy,” follows the flailing situationship between two aspiring writers with a 12-year age gap.

In “Journey to Nowhere,” Shiva Naipaul reports on the aftermath of a cult’s disastrous turn away from idealism.