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The best-selling thriller writer Tess Gerritsen likes older detectives who bring a lifetime of experience to their cases.

Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, takes you to her favorite bookstores in Park Slope/Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This tour offers readers a variety of genres, new books and used books.

He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”

The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.

A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.

How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.

“We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.

While the Y.A. graphic novel phenomenon wraps up with a sixth volume and a Netflix movie, Alice Oseman mostly reads fiction about adults now.

A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices. The creators know criticism is coming.