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The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment.

This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.

The easy way of seeing the world begins to look like a socially convenient illusion.

A historian as well, he challenged, with a muckraker’s spirit, the political and corporate establishment of a country he adopted after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.

An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.

The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.

Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”

The deal, for $1.62 billion, will put control of a cultural touchstone in the hands of a financial buyer.

The deal with KKR, a private equity firm, is said to be valued at roughly $1.62 billion, and could be announced as soon as Monday.