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Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.

Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.

He questioned the findings of the Warren Commission, called Edward Snowden a prized Russian asset and exposed the diamond industry’s economic impact.

Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined “The Known World,” recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

The author discusses her new novel, “Swan Song,” which she says is the last beach read she intends to write.

As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.

“Red is the color of the year.”

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a wayward wash of color.