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The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.

Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.

A biological anthropologist, she worked with colleagues to confirm for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.

One of the few women at the top of her field in book and magazine publishing, she was also a champion of her fellow professionals.

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.

She devoted her life to showing us how and why.

“I am weak from so much internal bleeding,” the novelist wrote to his lawyer. “Have been a good boy and tried to rest.”

Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.

A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works.