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Anna Shechtman’s new memoir-history hybrid, “The Riddles of the Sphinx,” explores the gender politics behind one of the world’s most popular word games.

Sad, beautiful, tragic.

He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.

With its feminist take on sexual pleasure, Erica Jong’s novel caused a sensation in 1973. But the revolution Jong promoted never came to pass.

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Inflamed, impertinent and deeply insightful, D.H. Lawrence’s “Studies in Classic American Literature” remains startlingly relevant 100 years after it was originally published.

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

Taboos about what can’t be shown in picture books vary around the world.

Once at the center of the murder mystery, the cadaver has become increasingly incidental to the action and now figures as little more than a prop.

Inside the “auntie-free zone” at this year’s festival.