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With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair.

An adaptation of her 19th-century-set novel “Washington Black” is streaming on Hulu. But she’s not totally comfortable with the historical fiction label.

We asked therapists and researchers for the best books on learning to let go.

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

At shops across the country, some of the most popular sales associates have four legs, twitchy ears and whiskers.

Your burning questions about the postal service are answered in Stephen Starring Grant’s lively memoir.

A new book investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions.

Our critic on the best new books this month.

Our critic on the best new books this month.

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City.