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Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women.

Corinna Luyken, Philip Stead and Isabelle Arsenault capture the unique brightness that comes after the dark.

An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.

Not only is her latest cookbook her first best seller, the veteran chef has come around to whimsical rainbow flair on baked goods.

A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors.

“A book is made of language,” says the author, whose new novel is “Welcome Home, Stranger.” “How can a house be great if it’s made of shoddy materials? How can a dinner be great if it’s made with terrible ingredients?”

Cait Corrain, a debut fantasy author, admitted to creating fake accounts on Goodreads to bolster her own book and tank the ratings of others.

Philip Norman, the author of books about Paul McCartney, John Lennon and the Beatles as a group, discovers that Harrison was, among other things, a puzzle.

A rigorously researched guide on Chinese cooking, a choose-your-own adventure for pasta lovers and more, as tested by New York Times Cooking and the Food desk.