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The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.

In his latest novel, “The Living and the Rest,” José Eduardo Agualusa takes readers to a literary festival in Africa where novelists’ characters come to life.

Now in its 25th year, The Dresden Files and its author have survived the darkness, fictional and otherwise.

In “Theater Kid,” Jeffrey Seller reflects on his Broadway career.

The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.

“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.

To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.

She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”