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The British author of dozens of literary works has denied the allegations that five women made against him on a podcast series.

In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.

In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, fun and rollicking lyrics.

Danez Smith’s “Bluff” represents a notable turning point for the poet — and maybe for American poetry as a whole.

In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

In his latest collection, the Pulitzer winner Carl Phillips relies on sinuous language to evoke love, heartache and the passing of the years.

After 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his chair.

The departures of Reagan Arthur, who led Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who held the top job at Pantheon and Schocken, came as a surprise to many in the company.

The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.