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The second novel in Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles – following Britain’s sex and power-mad elites of the 1980s – will have a ‘2020s lens’ in a new Disney+ series

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1884 novel has been placed under increased scrutiny in recent years

A professor wanders around the German capital, enabling dreamlike meditations on history, identity and belonging

Why readers and writers will have to fight against a closing in of culture more than ever

The bestselling author and essayist Sloane Crosley has written an experimental romantic comedy about wellness, the romantic undead and the modern human condition. She speaks to Adam White about nitpicking, religion and the ‘disgusting ooze’ of social media

Women less interested in ‘macho competitiveness of violence’ in conflict, says author

DALLAS — Beto O’Rourke’s latest work is hitting bookshelves in the middle of a heated campaign to defeat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

RALEIGH, N.C. — When North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson spoke on education at a round-table event Tuesday night in downtown Durham, he didn’t publicly broach a topic likely to have been on many attendees’ minds: a call in his upcoming book for eliminating science and history from the first-…