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Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.

The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.

His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.

A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.

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

Her collection “Crime Against Nature,” which recounts her losing custody of her children after she came out, made her a literary star — and a target of conservatives.

The author of “On Fire Island” wasn’t sure what to expect when she was invited to appear at a “Books & Burlesque” event. Here’s her unblushing report.

Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables.

An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.