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The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

Many of the more than 250 books she published explored contemporary social issues; others retold fables from her native Northern Ireland.

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

Over a 60-year career, he illustrated some 100 books of fairy tales, poetry and memoirs, and won three Caldecott Medals.

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.

The actor and environmentalist considered hiring a ghostwriter for help with his memoir, then realized as he was writing things down, “This is too much fun.”

Eliza Clark’s debut novel was a hit on TikTok. With her next book, “Penance,” she aims for literary longevity over viral success.