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The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.

The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.

Readers suggest books that help make sense of the nation’s most populous state.

“I know my limitations, but I would still invite William Shakespeare,” says the actor, whose new memoir is “Being Henry: The Fonz … and Beyond.” “I would also invite Daniel Silva and definitely Larry David!”

Developing, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness.

The author of “Mother-Daughter Murder Night” started working on her debut novel during a time of tremendous stress.

S. Isabelle, the author of “The Witchery” and its sequel, “Shadow Coven,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. novels about witches.

S. Isabelle, the author of “The Witchery” and its sequel, “Shadow Coven,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. novels about witches.

“The Upstairs Delicatessen,” a memoir by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, traces his life’s twin passions.

For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.