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Revelations about a relationship between the author and a girl who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of his work. Now there’s a debate about how much she influenced his writing.

His literary career traced the arc of his country’s modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.

Before there was a feature film or a book, there was Crockett Johnson.

As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.

The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.

There are early signs that Spotify’s addition of audiobooks to its streaming service is helping drive audiobook consumption — already a growing market.

The comedian goes off-script while revisiting her raw and hilarious memoir, “Leslie F*cking Jones.”

The comedian goes off-script while revisiting her raw and hilarious memoir, “Leslie F*cking Jones.”

One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.

The author of “First Lie Wins” explains a key move in her novel-writing process.