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Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.

“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”

The celebrity chef’s second children’s book, “Billy and the Epic Escape,” faced accusations that it stereotyped First Nations people in Australia.

The novelist’s sheet music collection reveals new perspectives on her life and work.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.

The Grand Regency Costumed Promenade in Bath, England, is the showiest and merriest of the celebrations of the writer’s 250th.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.

An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.

The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.