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In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

The author discusses her new novel, “Swan Song,” which she says is the last beach read she intends to write.

As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.

His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific.

Eliza Clark’s debut novel was a hit on TikTok. With her next book, “Penance,” she aims for literary longevity over viral success.

In “Prospero’s Daughter” and other novels, she explored the legacy of colonialism in her native Trinidad and the struggle for belonging in an adopted country.

She was a writer and a top editor at publications as diverse as The Nation, Vogue and Entertainment Weekly. She also helped found Grand Street and reboot Vanity Fair.

Her work often drew from her upbringing in California amid World War II, such as her intricate novel about the Nazi leader Hermann Goering.

In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came, the Southern upper bourgeoisie.

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist.