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Dan Nadel’s “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life” takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer compared notes.

He wrote prolifically about various aspects of the arts and popular culture. But he kept his focus on jazz, celebrating its past while worrying about its future.

At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.

A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.

The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.

Charles Onana and his publisher were fined for passages in a book that were found to have violated a French law making it illegal to deny an officially recognized genocide.

Ilana Kaplan’s new coffee table book pays tribute to the godmother of the modern rom-com.

How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker and “Wicked” to Elon Musk.

Hundreds of declassified U.S. Army photos are featured in the new book “Fashion Army.”

Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.