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Until recently, the language of morality belonged to social conservatives. But the history of liberalism suggests that values have been at its core all along.

Their names may not be familiar, but they helped define queer art, activism and storytelling as we know it today.

Our columnist on the month’s best books.

Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote “Famesick,” a new memoir, she’s taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.

The writer, actor and lightning rod is not done sharing yet.

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.

After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.

After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.

The outrageous reality TV star has written a memoir — part evolution, part exorcism. She’s more than ready to tell you why.

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.