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She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.

He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.

In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.

Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.

Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”

The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.

In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.