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How the multi-hyphenate, biracial artist from Far Rockaway influenced 1980s graffiti culture and the downtown New York art scene.

The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.

A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life.

With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.

The “One Tree Hill” actor has written a memoir of the decade she spent beholden to the Big House Family — and her escape.

The author’s Southern Reach trilogy, which began with “Annihilation” in 2014, now has a fourth installment, a prequel.

Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Charles Baxter’s new novel is a snapshot of a troubled America, disguised as a speculative comedy.

In “Clean,” a domestic worker for a wealthy family tells her side of a tragic story.