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Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth’s willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.

A flurry of new books highlights broad disagreements over how to address the problem.

El libro de la estrella del pop es una obra colectiva. Otros tres autores participaron.

The former poet laureate examines our country’s oldest wounds — and ongoing racism — through the lens of her own family’s experience.

At the age of 80, Sly Stone has finally produced his memoir, and it gives a strong sense of this giant’s voice and sensibility.

Jeanne DuPrau’s “Project F,” Patricia Forde’s “The Girl Who Fell to Earth” and Donna Barba Higuera’s “Alebrijes” answer the question, Could this be the beginning of the end?

On the genre’s 50th anniversary, “The Motherlode” honors contributions by the women, like Salt-N-Pepa, Roxanne Shanté and Megan Thee Stallion, who’ve made it what it is today.

Mixing the medical and the personal, several memoirists find literary analogies the best way to capture unwelcome visits to “unimaginable lands.”

The author of “Icebreaker” and “Wildfire” has her own reasons for avoiding the limelight.

Words Without Borders, a magazine dedicated to literature in translation, is turning 20 at a fraught time. How to celebrate words when bombs are dropping?