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Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist.

She saw her family members marched off to their deaths while she went to a forced-labor camp. It took her almost 60 years to begin telling her story.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.