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There’s nothing like hearing a famous person’s life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.

It’s time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can’t stop thinking about.

There’s nothing like hearing a famous person’s life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.

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.