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John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.

A writer and artist finds a path out of pain in the stacks of a library.

A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.

Her best-selling romances have made her a new standard-bearer of the genre.

Sure, you can hit Harrods. But the British capital also has small specialized shops, some centuries old and still crafting items by hand. Here, a selection of singular shopping experiences.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country.

Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox News-watching parents, “It’s like they were possessed.” That’s what inspired him to write “Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.”