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For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.

Dann McDorman, the executive producer of “The Beat With Ari Melber,” gave up writing fiction in his 20s. Now, he’s publishing his first novel at age 47.

Some Jane Austen and a tennis rom-com are just right the right relief when news of fighting and war takes a toll.

In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.

While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.

The Nobel Prizes will be announced beginning Monday.

In “Chinese Menu,” Grace Lin takes readers and eaters on a food tour that dates back to 7000 B.C.

For years, the director puzzled over an adaptation of “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Then he let the characters say things they weren’t meant to.

The veteran columnist and author has covered athletic endeavors for so long, he’s witnessed a revolution.

The fruits of a free-ranging reading week were a fascinating book on China and a political science paper that explains a quirk of far-right politics.