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Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.

Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.

Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the legacy of Cold War coups to the vulnerable lives caught up in a tangled system.

Memoirists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the origins of the war on crime to what comes after “broken windows.”

Kristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.

The setting of “The Fury,” the new novel by Alex Michaelides, is stunning. Its plot? Not so much.

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