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Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

The series is the third production linked to the author to face turmoil after allegations made by five women surfaced this summer.

An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.

In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.

These books are perfect for the spooky season.

With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants an imaginary revolution.

From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.

Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.