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His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him. He came to believe the phenomenon was real.

His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.

During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?

With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.

Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed — published after Ms. Joplin’s death.

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

Keefe’s narrative history, which was No. 19 on our list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, has now been adapted into a streaming series.