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A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.

“London Falling” and “Dissection of a Murder” were among his recent favorite books. “War and Peace” and “A Clockwork Orange” went unfinished.

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

When she started her new novel, Julie Orringer didn’t know that it would mirror the taxing medical challenges faced by her husband.

His moody portrait became the album cover for “Kind of Blue.” Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.

Mr. Arday resigned last week after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.

The eminent critic Harold Bloom called his 1981 book “Little, Big” a “neglected masterpiece” and one of the best novels of the 20th century.

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

The director of slasher films that defined horror from the 1970s through the ’90s realizes his latest work, “Cathedral,” as both a graphic novel and a hard-rock album.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.