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As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s classic fable is as apt as ever.

Caissie Levy was Broadway’s first Elsa. She starred in “Hair” and “Ghost.” And now, for “Ragtime,” she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The story at the heart of “Checkmate” is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly.

These books dig into the thrilling, ugly and swoon-worthy drama of a happy couple’s big day.

Lerner’s new novel is a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.

Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.

In “Whistler,” a surprise encounter at the Met changes the course of two lives.

As presented in Andrea Wulf’s new biography, “The Traveler,” George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.

The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.