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The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next.

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.

Whether you’re in the mood for another Jane Austen adaptation, a British rom-com or a love story with a fabulous older heroine, we’ve got you covered.

The creator of Bridget Jones, who grew up on Jane Austen and Jackie Collins, has no patience for “snobbery about escapist fiction.”

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story.

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.

The writer is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more complicated.

The author of “The Joy Luck Club” once vowed to have her papers destroyed after her death. Now they are going to the University of California, Berkeley.

A play by the Nobel winner Jon Fosse gets a rare staging, but New Yorkers will have to wait a little longer to see a production that captures the Norwegian writer’s haunting universe.