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Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

A group of New York Times journalists test-drove routes that wind through shops specializing in comics, drama, fantasy and romance.

Annie Dillard died this week. But her voice — wild and holy and hilarious — continues to live in my head, my soul and, somehow, my dog.

In “True North,” the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.

“Swan Song,” Charles Spencer’s memoir of Lady Diana, is full of love and vengeance.

Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana died, her brother has written a book about her life, her marriage to Prince Charles and the suffering she endured at the hands of the tabloid press.

Doireann Ni Ghriofa’s “Said the Dead” is a fusion of biography, memoir and poetry drawn from century-old casebooks.

In a new book, the prizewinning biographer Benjamin Moser charts a tradition of Jewish opposition to Zionism and recounts his belated conversion to that view.

In “The Age of Cures,” the journalist Barry Werth shows how American drug manufacturers got big and then came under attack.

His “The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook” made a case for insects as food, while his boisterous cooking demonstrations brought tarantulas and crickets to TV.