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A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.

In “America, U.S.A.,” Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.

It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married.

Mac Barnett, the national ambassador for young people’s literature, published a manifesto aimed at adults. Then came the blowback.

Fans are traveling great distances for the chance to meet Tom Felton, who has revived a now grown-up Draco Malfoy on Broadway in “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child.”

Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year’s prize.

Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.

This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here’s how the latest iteration came to be.

As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.

In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.