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Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.

A philandering father; a literary affair.

The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?

Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.

In “Private Revolutions,” Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.

It can be thrillingly dangerous and profoundly comforting at the same time.

The second annual Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace celebrated what Queen Camilla has called the “great adventure” of the written word.

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