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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.”

Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.

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.

Five decades ago, an award-winning Malian author disappeared from public life after being accused of plagiarism. Now, his ambiguous novel is being released, and evaluated, in new light.

In today’s overtouristed world, should a professional traveler broadcast his discoveries or hide them away?

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.