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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.

If your idea of festive joy is being haunted by past memories or driven insane by mysterious specters, have we got the tradition for you.

There are plenty of novels, memoirs, documentaries and livestreaming options sure to satiate fans of theater.

His early work took readers to the stars, but his later work ventured into noir mystery and the back roads of the American South.

He helped forge a movement asserting that scholars must put aside their modern-day assumptions and prejudices to fully understand how people acted and thought in the past.

Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)