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An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.

Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways.

The new and selected poems in Ada Limón’s “Startlement” reveal her to be garrulous, funny and heart-on-sleeve even when she’s being a little wicked.

Our columnist on notable new releases.

Based on his popular Substack, the iconoclastic author’s new book is a warning against the dangers of turning innovation into a secular faith.

An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states.

A hands-free “pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something,” would help. Her new novel is “Will There Ever Be Another You.”

In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past.

Inspired by his parents’ travels, he spent much of his life in Africa and helped complete his father’s safari memoir. He also published a volume of father-son letters. He was Ernest Hemingway’s last surviving child.

Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho’, was written as satire. He’s also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar.