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In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.

In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.

A new photo book reorients dusty notions of a classic American pastime.

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world.

Three books describe the work of government investigators who want to uncover or bury the truth.

Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.

Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading.

Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public art is most powerfully preserved on the street.

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The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”

The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.

The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“I don’t want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long,” says the best-selling novelist. “Funny Story,” about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.

The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.

“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.

A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.