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The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention.

Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections.

Three new books explore the how, why and what that keep our world moving.

Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.

Having written about an inflection point for the British monarchy, the royals chronicler is at a crossroads in his own career.

Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, after nine years.

“Caro’s works are masterpieces of research and artistry,” says the former vice president and managing editor at Knopf Doubleday, who looks forward to — what else? — more reading, after 60 years on the job.

In books and magazine articles, she uncovered the forgotten story of the actresses and screenwriters who helped create the film industry.

Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.

A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works.