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As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency.

Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.

In her new memoir, “Worthy,” she answers big questions, poses others to readers and sets the record straight on her marriage to Will Smith.

He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

In “The Sisterhood,” the journalist Liza Mundy chronicles the frustrations, triumphs and compromises of the women of the C.I.A.

In a new memoir, the actor who couldn’t shake his breakthrough role on “Full House” talks about honesty, sobriety and his grief over Bob Saget’s death.

Skip “The Exchange,” our columnist advises, and pick up “The Plinko Bounce” or “The Last One” instead.

Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neuroscientist argues. It might also be liberating.

The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former President Rodrigo Duterte.