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His 1998 book, “Gotham,” which told the city’s story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.

The film “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.

New works by Christy Mihaly, Carole Boston Weatherford, Howard W. Reeves and Derrick Barnes show that there is still much to celebrate, rebel against and amend.

He excavated a treasure hoard of manuscripts by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others that were found in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J.

The best-selling author Gillian McAllister recommends novels that blend escapist settings with pulse-pounding intrigue and bloody murder.

A grass-roots campaign urged readers to buy copies of the Black feminist writer’s 2002 book “Communion” before Vice President JD Vance’s book of the same name hit shelves.

Now that Sandra Boynton’s books have crossed generations of child-rearing — and her first, “Hippos Go Berserk!,” is approaching 50 — they deserve another look.

An introduction to a living genius of children’s literature for the adults who will inevitably read her on repeat.

A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an “oldigarchy,” in which wealth and power are hoarded by the elderly.

On “Tony Brown’s Journal,” he interviewed guests like Jesse Jackson and Lena Horne, and made programming decisions by asking himself, “Will it help Black people?”