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Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré’s son. In his latest book, “Karla’s Choice,” he revisits his father’s great spy protagonist, George Smiley.

As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated?

Your culture and entertainment questions answered by New York Times journalists and experts.

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

Hear songs from Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and more, inspired by a new book.

Greenwell’s “What Belongs to You” reaches the opera stage with a team that includes the composer David T. Little and the director Mark Morris.

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers?

In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.

Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.

For the justices, selling books remains one of the few ways to earn income outside the court.