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Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories.

The bassist and photographer who logged time in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins unpacks one of the most creative and chaotic times of her life in a new memoir.

His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.

The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

A prolific writer and lecturer, he viewed U.S. history through the lens of class struggle. But some accused him of defending brutal regimes in the Soviet Union and Serbia.

One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In “Future Boy,” he recalls juggling signature roles in “Back to the Future” and “Family Ties.”

“It’s all about the texture,” says the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” and the new “Letter From Japan.” Both fit the bill.

With “Entertaining,” a seminal cookbook that’s being newly reissued, the original lifestyle influencer changed the culture and built her empire.