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A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.

A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.

Heather Clark’s debut novel, “The Scrapbook,” considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him carried it forward.

A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.

Once called “our present-day Homer” for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1999.

For “People’s Choice Literature,” Tom Comitta wrote two books based on the likes and dislikes of American readers.

The best-selling author of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” and “Daisy Jones and the Six” takes to the skies for her latest novel.