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The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.

For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.

He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.

A torrent of canceled events is threatening Germany’s reputation as a haven for artistic freedom.

The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker goes to a comic version of “Dracula” that is appearing Off Broadway.

The publisher’s new board of directors has expertise spanning the life cycle of a book.

The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end.

At 512 pages, “My Effin’ Life” has its share of Rush lore. But the most memorable parts of the singer and bassist’s book are about survival.

“Into Siberia” traces the journalist George Kennan’s long-forgotten trip to Russia in 1885.

“A great story casts a spell,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Vulnerables.” “It can enthrall you so completely that you not only forget that you’re stuck between two manspreaders in a noisy, crowded, smelly subway car but miss your stop.”