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In her new memoir, the novelist abandons English for Italian.

How email, a shared love of music, and an off-kilter sensibility produced a different kind of social network.

From Grace Paley’s “black voice” to Tony Kushner’s fractured gay identity in “Angels in America,” what makes a story representative?

How an adolescent love affair with "Atlas Shrugged" opened up the world of radical politics.

Sometimes the first cut really is the deepest.

If Vermonters legalize pot, they're going to do it their way.

A new book tells of the summer Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth spent in Ostend in 1936.