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Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.

Hear songs from Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and more, inspired by a new book.

The star novelist discusses her public persona, the discourse around her work and why reinvention isn’t a goal.

“Intermezzo,” the Irish novelist’s fourth novel, is one of this fall’s most anticipated books.

Greenwell’s “What Belongs to You” reaches the opera stage with a team that includes the composer David T. Little and the director Mark Morris.

More than 25 years later, the pen of another name meets a new generation of wordsmiths.

What happens on Page 76 of books by Garth Greenwell, Domenico Starnone and Alia Trabucco Zéran, as envisioned by the artist Jammie Holmes.

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

Jesse Ball’s Kafkaesque novel imagines a legal system that deploys a shockingly personal device.

Alexandra Alter spent time with the author at a new exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of his book “The Power Broker.”