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The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.

Jordan Harper knows the entertainment industry from the inside out. His new novel, “A Violent Masterpiece,” holds nothing back.

For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical, which has shifted to the queer ballroom scene.

The work of the novelist Colleen Hoover has become hot property in Hollywood. Here’s why studios clamor to adapt her books.

Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.

A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.

Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.

She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, “Excuse My Dust.”

Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.