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When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views.

Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death of well-known people.

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic.

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of Empires.”

A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage is on sale at Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen.

The Irish author discusses “Long Island,” the sequel to his 2009 novel “Brooklyn.”

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.”

Christopher plays soccer, records TikToks, and endures hours-long immigration hearings.