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Access to the late rapper’s journals gives Staci Robinson’s authorized biography a rare intimacy, without delving deeply into his music.

Some fear that the raft of cancellations at this moment of war and tragedy is limiting opportunities to foster dialogue and greater understanding.

A former refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, she became an openly lesbian voice in the women’s movement and a key leader in feminist studies.

Dave Gonzales and Joanna Robinson, who collaborated with Gavin Edwards on the new book “MCU,” talk about Marvel Studios and the reign of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Memoirs by Meg Kissinger, Athena Dixon, McKenzie Wark and Xiaolu Guo tackle loneliness, self-reinvention and family legacy.

“The Woman in Me” reveals plenty about her life in the spotlight, and tempers well-earned bitterness with an enduring, insistent optimism.

She published her first book at 17 and has since become one of France’s best-known novelists. NDiaye is not interested in easy — and she expects her readers to work, too.

In Rachel Eliza Griffith’s debut novel, “Promise,” the Kindreds find they can’t escape past mistakes.

Many of the more than 250 books she published explored contemporary social issues; others retold fables from her native Northern Ireland.

A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage was auctioned by Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen.