RSS Items

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

She wrote whimsical tales about the little things in a child’s life. “A House Is a House for Me” won a National Book Award.

The popular science author, whose latest is “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” discusses her approach to the stranger corners of scientific inquiry.

She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

His children’s book, “Just Because,” follows a best-selling memoir, “Greenlights,” which also drew from the actor’s musings and life lessons.