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Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

The world’s most famous epic has something for every reader.

A grass-roots campaign urged readers to buy copies of the Black feminist writer’s 2002 book “Communion” before Vice President JD Vance’s book of the same name hit shelves.

Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to Hollywood stardom. But it’s being released amid a backlash over transgender rights that’s caught up to her, too.

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married.

Stefanie Joseph and Christopher Richards, who met on a dating app three years ago, immediately bonded over their love of reading.

The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep’s clothing.

Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.