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A video featuring the second part of Picture this, a new series on children’s book illustrators in India by Menaka Raman.

Writers from Anne Tyler to Joan Didion and Tom McCarthy explore the possibilities and perils of remaking one’s life

Matthew Holness, appearing as the fictional horror author, teased Marenghi’s forthcoming ‘TerrorTome’

The breakup of a toxic relationship is catalogued in a powerful, elliptical novel that doesn’t quite pull off its ambitious experiment

It's common knowledge that the coveted, cutthroat magazine depicted in the novel "The Devil Wears Prada" is a thinly veiled Vogue, where author Lauren Weisberger briefly worked as an assistant to longtime editor Anna Wintour. The 2006 film adaptation of Weisberger's book went on to gross $326 million worldwide largely…

NONFICTION: An antidote to the formulaic genre of memoir, providing an authentic look at what life feels like, in all its contradictory glory.