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The “mystical capital of Europe” serves as the backdrop for the author’s latest novel, “The Secret of Secrets.” Here are five spots that fire his imagination.

“The Secret of Secrets,” the sixth installment in Dan Brown’s franchise about the symbologist Robert Langdon, brings the bookish hero back to a European capital to unravel a shocking conspiracy.

The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.

With the country facing a “reading crisis,” the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax.

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a pen name.

The author of influential books and essays, he was known for a contemporary theory of religion and Catholicism that advocated dialogue, not decrees.

Once a Marxist, he came to embrace hard-right positions, including the falsehood that Mr. Trump won in 2020, and to mentor Stephen Miller, later the Trump adviser.

Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?

He took a dry topic and made it entertaining, capturing the attention of policymakers and influencing the way cities are built.

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.