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He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak and challenging. But they’re also comical and deeply human.

“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing?

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.

In this respect, the president has something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.

Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

It’s not too early to think about the season’s most anticipated titles.

Dino Buzzati’s best works evoke the fabulism, paranoia and allegory of writers like Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and Italo Calvino.

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.