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“Carrie” was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal.

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”

A sociologist in New York, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.

A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.

Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York where he tended bar and appeared in soap operas and, with his family, scattered “Angela’s Ashes.”

The French president’s decision brought relief to the sellers who have long operated near the Seine, and avoided a standoff.

“I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom-com “With a Little Luck.”

A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.

Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis.

His early work took readers to the stars, but his later work ventured into noir mystery and the back roads of the American South.