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“Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be,” the Oscar-winning actress and author says. “But it is good exercise.”

Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.

The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.

Our columnist reviews this season’s new books.

In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

In essays and books, he explored physical landscapes and the terrain of his own life, up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”

Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.

Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.

He wrote a history of the Irish Republican Army and directed a project that secretly collected oral histories of paramilitary fighters.