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As a journalist she covered issues affecting women, then turned to writing about housekeeping in handbooks and a syndicated newspaper column.

The move to acquire the publisher, one of the five largest in the country, comes after the government blocked a deal last year on antitrust concerns.

In “In Search of Self” and other books, he emphasized the role of cultural influences in a patient’s life.

Reading Claude Anet’s provocative 1920 novel “Ariane: A Russian Girl,” the reader may yearn for a little less conversation.

An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.

Departing employees include veteran editors who oversaw best sellers and prizewinning books by Anne Rice, Joan Didion and Amor Towles.

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse.

In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s new novel, “Small Worlds,” a young South Londoner manages pressures from his family and community.

In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come.

Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field’s ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.