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This time the celebrated novelist spins the cozy tale of a former actress, her three daughters and their rueful memories. There’s a cherry orchard, too.

In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.

With “Tonight in Jungleland,” Peter Ames Carlin looks deep inside the album that made Springsteen a rock star.

The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.

Joe Westmoreland captures the pleasures and pains of American wanderlust in his forgotten classic “Tramps Like Us.”

In a series of revealing essays, the NPR contributor Nell Greenfieldboyce views the events of her life through the lens of natural phenomena.

In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life, work and influence.

“Tree. Table. Book” and “Not Nothing” feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories.

His new novel, “Tremor,” uses images and artifacts to look deeply into trauma, identity and consolation.

When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.