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In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

Taboos about what can’t be shown in picture books vary around the world.

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

She saw her family members marched off to their deaths while she went to a forced-labor camp. It took her almost 60 years to begin telling her story.

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

The memoir, which will cover his time in prison and Russia’s move toward autocracy, will be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.

Many of the more than 250 books she published explored contemporary social issues; others retold fables from her native Northern Ireland.