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Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh’s nuanced take on the Netflix show’s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.

A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.

Thanks to begrudging cooperation from the comedian and writer, a new biography is suitably kvetchy, if a little too long and a little too nice.

Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.

In “Every Story Is a Love Story,” a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.

In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.

A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.