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A selection of photos from The New York Times of Harlem in the 1970s.

The Pulitzer-winning novelist discusses the sequel to his 2021 crime story “Harlem Shuffle.”

In her second novel, Hila Blum plumbs the depths of one of the most complicated relationships known to women.

Her wide range of subjects included the actress Jayne Mansfield, the novelist Louisa May Alcott and Mary Washington, the mother of a president.

A museum in England devoted to the best-selling children’s author, who died in 1990, condemned his antisemitic views.

A new book by a hospice nurse helps readers wrap their minds around — and perhaps make peace with — the great unknown.

In her debut novel, “King of the Armadillos,” Wendy Chin-Tanner explores immigration, illness and opportunity through the story of a teenage immigrant who is diagnosed with Hansen’s disease.

Henry Bean’s first novel, reissued as “The Nenoquich,” follows a young writer in Berkeley through a transformative affair.

“When you become a writer, you inevitably lose your innocence as a reader,” says the Pulitzer-winning novelist, whose new book is “Somebody’s Fool.” “It’s like being given the underground tour of Disney World. Some of the magic dissipates.”

Brandon Shimoda wrote this short poem after encountering a lost migrant in the Arizona desert.