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How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.

In his books about Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and other figures on the right, he was, one observer said, “a keeper of the flame and spreader of the gospel.”

A judge ended a nearly 20-year-old conservatorship that had given a couple broad authority over the affairs of the former N.F.L. player Michael Oher.

In “The Familiar,” the blockbuster fantasist conjures a world of mystical intrigue and romance.

For kids who hide indoors with a pile of books until the autumnal chill arrives.

He pioneered the bookstore-as-superstore, a retail behemoth that dominated the industry before Amazon overtook it with its online reach.

With “Blood and Politics,” he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.

Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.

Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.

His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.