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In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.

You don’t have to know an orc from a Mumakil to enjoy the new animated adventure, though it’ll certainly help.

Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.

The protagonists of “A Day With Mousse,” “Little Shrew” and “Lone Wolf Goes to School” feel happiest on their own.

Three new books explore the fraught relationships between tech companies and the U.S. government through close looks at Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Elon Musk’s X.

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.

In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other.

“You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.

As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.