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His refusal to bow out after losing a second Speaker vote is exposing the majority party's inability to govern.

A voracious reader, the president liked poetry, Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter.

He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.

Though I don't think anyone asked?

Though I don't think anyone asked?

Didion’s influential account of the era, “The White Album,” captures the ripples of terror provoked by the 1969 murders.

Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

An indefatigable gardener, she was one of the first nutritionists to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers’ health.

Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.