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A newly mourning daughter finds an unexpected companion in the beloved films, whose star, a little bear, sets an example of how to live with loss.

In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits. “Clothes matter — especially when you get old,” he says.

Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases.

On a trip to Colombia to see the Netflix production of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a reporter was struck by memories of real places.

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.

Once considered revolutionary, his notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor has become a central tenet of Catholic social teaching.

The third in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.

“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in paperback.