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Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard’s debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger.

Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.

In “The Bars Are Ours,” Lucas Hilderbrand offers a transcontinental look at a half-century of queer nightlife in America.

The rollout of “Endgame” caused a scandal after a quickly withdrawn translation named family members said to have asked about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan’s future son.

The author of the Percy Jackson series (newly adapted for Disney+ this month) is looking for anthologies of Indigenous folklore and mythology, too.

A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Surprising ascensions, Hollywood migrations and daggers to the art — it’s all part of life at the top.

This month, writer Suleika Jaouad revisits her second bone marrow transplant in the documentary “American Symphony.”

It would be tempting to allow my son to believe in a world that will never betray him, but I want him to know better.