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He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.

In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

A new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust.”

Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.

In his books about Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and other figures on the right, he was, one observer said, “a keeper of the flame and spreader of the gospel.”

She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.