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The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

The novelist is 75. Rusty Sabich, the now-retired prosecutor he introduced in “Presumed Innocent,” is 77 — and taking on a new case in “Presumed Guilty.”

A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong anchor Burke’s new book, “The Note.” It started with real life.

Chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine adventure novels exquisitely capture the atmosphere of the season.

After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet.

This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a supplementary guide.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America’s favorite side hustle: landlording.