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She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.

The second in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.

It can be thrillingly dangerous and profoundly comforting at the same time.

Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.

Fred C. Trump III’s “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” will hit shelves July 30.

The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.