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He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He also taught at Brown University for four decades.

His book about the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty was a best seller. He later worked, briefly and not happily, for Richard M. Nixon.

Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him.

In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And that’s just the start of their troubles.

Sarah Lyall discusses the thriller “Whalefall,” by Daniel Kraus, and Joumana Khatib rounds up the month’s other big books.

Once at the center of the murder mystery, the cadaver has become increasingly incidental to the action and now figures as little more than a prop.

The filmmakers didn’t want to disappoint fans of Casey McQuiston’s novel about the romance between a U.S. president’s son and a British prince.

Encouragement, profit or exploitation?

In “The Octagon House,” published in 1848, Orson Squire Fowler wondered why anyone would build a four-sided home when they could have an eight-sided one.

These mysteries run the gamut, from quirky Gothic to small-town cozy to chilly Nordic noir.