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Aparna Nancherla always put her mental health struggles at the center of her comedy. Then they got so bad she couldn’t perform.

In “Foreign Bodies,” Simon Schama studies pandemics past and present, and how much — and little — we have learned.

A growing number of video stars are using their online clout to break into the publishing world — and top the best-seller lists.

A rancher turned hero finds himself elected to the Statehouse in the novel “Mr. Texas.”

The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.

Nic Stone, the author of “Dear Martin,” “Chaos Theory” and more, recommends some of her favorite young adult books about mental health.

His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

“Difficult Men,” Brett Martin’s book about the prestige TV boom, has been rereleased in a 10th-anniversary edition. In an interview, he reflects on how TV has changed since he wrote it.

When white employees refused to work in a notorious hospital, Maria Smilios writes in “The Black Angels,” these nurses came to the aid of New Yorkers.

In “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew argues that it’s not the individuals who need “fixing,” it’s their environment.