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The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she’s the one with something to say.

Linda Rosenkrantz mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, she’s the one with something to say.

In “Devils’ Advocates,” the New York Times journalist Kenneth P. Vogel wades into the murky world of Washington lobbyists working for foreign interests.

In Brandon Taylor’s new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” an emerging painter explores what it means to create and experience art in an increasingly political world.

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.

Adam Johnson’s new novel focuses on two radically different island communities.

Megha Majumdar’s new novel follows two disastrously entangled lives in a famine-ridden future.

Bedlam’s sharply irreverent production of Emily Breeze’s comedy, a riff on “Pride and Prejudice,” has period dress, contemporary vernacular and a magnetic Mrs. Bennet.

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.