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The fourth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.

The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.

She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”

Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award.

Writing in a conversational and colloquial style, he offered practical advice on how to cut down on mistakes, the most difficult part of the game to master.

His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.

His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.

Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details.

A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.