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What Can Daniel Defoe’s “Plague Year” Teach Us About Coronavirus?

A novel written in 1722 offers a surprisingly relevant blueprint to navigating a 2020 pandemic

How "NBA Jam" Influenced Steph Curry's Game

Ben Cohen explains in his new book "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks"

Was Natalie Wood Murdered?

A new biography claims that her death was no accident

In the Book World, Fictional Epidemics Are All the Rage

Including one 1981 Dean Koontz novel with some eerie parallels

Inside the Treatment of Jordan Peterson

A complex situation involving a polarizing writer

Why You Should Be Reading Charles Willeford

A new film adaptation of one of his best novels is the perfect time to get into this cult writer

Hachette Drops Woody Allen's Memoir

"Apropos of Nothing" will no longer be published in April

Why Oprah’s Book Club Dropped ‘My Dark Vanessa’ as Its March Pick

The move follows the earlier backlash the Club received for its January pick, 'American Dirt'

Woody Allen to Release Memoir in April

"Apropos of Nothing" is due out on April 7

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for March

To start, Alex Garland’s “Devs” is a stunningly bleak vision of our tech-saturated future

The 8 New Books You Should Be Reading this March

A famous food critic, a Ponzi scheme, the return of a National Book Award winner and more

Inside the Campaign to Get Thomas Pynchon to Endorse a Presidential Candidate

The Crying of Lot 49? More like The Voting of Lot 49, if you know what we mean.

How Teddy Wayne’s Fiction Dissects Toxic Masculinity

His new novel "Apartment" searches for the '90s roots of 2020's issues

Will China, India or the U.S. Become Soccer's Next Global Power?

America has been trying to up its game for years, but it has competition

Behind the True Crime Story That Inspired "A Place in the Sun"

Over a century before the true-crime boom, People v. Gillette attracted the nation's attention