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For decades, publishers have swapped out cultural references in new editions of books to appeal to younger readers. Fans aren’t always thrilled.

Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of “Doonesbury” reunites with the journalist who pieced together his life story.

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)

A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren’t all so sure.

From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature.

“The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.

If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.

“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.