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Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s ...

The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.

What follows is reported in the mode of pure observation: the body washed and wrapped in gauze “like a small mummy”; the ...

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Safekeep,” Yael van der Wouden’s novel about a woman wrapped up ...

Federal workers, Google employees and newspaper editors have opened up about losing their jobs in the newsletter Laid Off.

The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels ...

Her best-selling romances have made her a new standard-bearer of the genre. Credit...The New York Times Supported by By ... heroines are intelligent, driven women — a hard-charging literary ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.