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In Lisa Ko’s adventurous novel “Memory Piece,” youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.

In “God’s Ghostwriters,” the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.

In “Nuclear War” and “Countdown,” Annie Jacobsen and Sarah Scoles talk to the people whose job it is to prepare for atomic conflict.

“I love ‘I heard a Fly buzz — when I died,’” said the actress, currently performing Off Broadway in “The Seven Year Disappear.” “That one gets me every time.”

A Chinatown hotel; an adventuress on the make.

In the memoir “Rabbit Heart,” Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture’s insatiable thirst for other people’s tragedy.

The duo will lead the cast of “Left on Tenth,” a stage adaptation of Delia Ephron’s best-selling memoir.

The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.

A posthumous release from the famed photographer Ruth Orkin casts a female gaze on subjects both ordinary and iconic.

A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.