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The author of “Gothikana” isn’t going to reveal much. But she will share a useful tip for writing and life.

Are they gas stations that serve food or restaurants that pump gas? A new photography book explores the lure of these restorative community rest stops.

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse?

Three new books explore the how, why and what that keep our world moving.

Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.

Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2023’s sexiest, swooniest reads.

Kristen Arnett, k.d. lang, Myriam Gurba and 10 more on Rita Mae Brown’s breakthrough novel about lesbian identity, published 50 years ago this fall.

“My Name Is Barbra,” her long-awaited (and rather enormous) autobiography, doesn’t have an index. But here are the best bits.