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The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention.

A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works.

John Vaillant, the author of “Fire Weather” (one of our 10 Best Books this year), discusses climate change and the fire that devastated a Canadian petroleum town in 2016.

Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.

The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker goes to a comic version of “Dracula” that is appearing Off Broadway.

From a 200th-anniversary edition of Clement C. Moore’s Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly loopy poems for every day of the year.

The rollout of “Endgame” caused a scandal after a quickly withdrawn translation named family members said to have asked about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan’s future son.

The poets’ fellowship, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of the genre’s most important accolades.

Part of the generation of Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he explored the lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America.

He emerged after World War II as a promising young writer exploring the emotional lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America.