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As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.

“The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,’” said the actress and author, “and all those songs, every single one, is amazing.”

In “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You,” the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that have shaped her career.

“I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

Three new books explore the fraught relationships between tech companies and the U.S. government through close looks at Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Elon Musk’s X.

As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

The poet left a long visual record of a career in the public sphere.

Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food.