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Geoff Bennett on the history of Black comedy from vaudeville to sitcoms

Andy Weir reveals his fun and frantic creative process behind 'Project Hail Mary'

In new memoirs, David Archuleta and Lindy West break with their pasts

Apple is turning 50. David Pogue’s new book tells its history.

Apple’s transformation from a niche hobbyist project into a global tech giant hinges on a consistent fifty-year mission to put advanced technology into the hands of everyday people. While Steve Wozniak originally intended to give away the Apple I design for free, Steve Jobs recognized its commercial potential, leading ...

In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculinity

Fab 5 Freddy’s 'Everybody’s Fly' is a backstage pass to NYC’s new wave hip hop scene

Sarvat Hasin's new novel is about a magnetic friendship between 'Strange Girls'

Two new murder mysteries: 'Ruby Falls' and 'The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives'

Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status

Cara Bastone's 'No Matter What' is a romance novel that begins with a separation

In 'The Mixed Marriage Project,' Dorothy Roberts works through her dad's archive

'The Correspondent' is an epistolary novel, but can letters tell the whole story?

'We the Women' and 'Rise, Girl, Rise' are stories about revolutionary women

'One of Us' is a British political drama based on the Boris Johnson era

To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself

In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video

In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise

'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life

'An American Marriage' author Tayari Jones is out with a new novel 'Kin'

Andrew Krivak’s novel 'Mule Boy' takes readers inside a Pennsylvania coal mine