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The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the “Invisible Man” author, who taught classes there.

For dozens of editors and reporters, the anniversary of the first issue of The Times in 1851 has been a moment to look back.

Jonathan Franzen’s novel, which put a Midwestern family under the microscope, came out a week before 9/11. Why are we still talking about it?

She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.

Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.

When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.

The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

An economic historian and political maverick, he was a sometimes polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.

“The Revolution of Everyday Life,” published in 1967, was his cri de coeur against mindless work, materialism and authority.

The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.