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At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

Transported to safe haven in England as a Jewish child in 1938, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in autobiographical fiction like “Other People’s Houses.”

One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in novel-memoirs like “Other People’s Houses.”

He pioneered the bookstore-as-superstore, a retail behemoth that dominated the industry before Amazon overtook it with its online reach.

For Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translating together extended naturally from their relationship as husband and wife. Now, it is their life’s work.

Working in a Louisiana middle school has made Amanda Jones a culture warrior, a process she describes in “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”

The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

The novelist discusses his latest book, “The Bright Sword,” in which Arthur has died but Excalibur lives on with a band of misfit knights.