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His loose style of watercolor painting brought him work for nearly 70 years. He also created about 100 fake van Goghs for the biographical film “Lust for Life.”

Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t.

In her memoir, “More,” Molly Roden Winter recounts the highs and lows of juggling an open marriage with work and child care.

“Ilium,” by Lea Carpenter, follows a young woman torn between opposing forces in her double life.

He questioned the findings of the Warren Commission, called Edward Snowden a prized Russian asset and exposed the diamond industry’s economic impact.

Each January, the director Steven Soderbergh lists his previous year’s cultural consumption — every movie and TV series watched, every book read. On this week’s episode, we talk books!

In a series of revealing essays, the NPR contributor Nell Greenfieldboyce views the events of her life through the lens of natural phenomena.

How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own.

In these novels, detectives — some real, others self-appointed — investigate deaths in a small town, on board a train, in a haunted French chateau.

The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre.