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Madame Tussauds is at it again.

Vincenzo Latronico captures his generation’s desire for an exquisite lifestyle — and pokes fun at it.

The U.N. climate conference, held in a petrostate, is a surreal moment. This darkly funny novel about Baku, oil companies and climate change in the first Trump term helps make sense of it all.

You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.

In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference.

Show off your cosmic colors!

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for books often called bleak and challenging. But they’re also comical and deeply human.

“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing?

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.