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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.

An online writing community was set aflame this week after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, said it wouldn’t take a stance on the use of A.I.

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Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much (much) older “shadow daddies” of romantasy novels.

He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

Camila Sosa Villada, an Argentine transgender author, first inhabited a female voice in stories she wrote as a child. Now her novels are translated in more than 20 languages and being adapted for the screen.

Our critic traces J.D. Vance’s shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.