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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

In Search of Amelia Earhart's Vanished Poetry

Besides her groundbreaking flights, Earhart had a literary side

"Da Vinci Code" Author Dan Brown to Pen Kids' Picture Book

The book and its soundtrack are out on September 1

Meet Susan Fowler, the Whistleblower Who Took on Uber

Her new autobiography details the harassment and bullying office culture at the ride-share company

Beyond “True Grit”: The Literary Legacy of Charles Portis

Sometimes, a handful of books is all you need to speak volumes

Charles Portis, Author of "True Grit," Dead at 86

His other books include "Norwood" and "The Dog of the South"

On Writing About the Environment in the Era of Climate Change

Three recent books offer a new framework for humanity in the current epoch

Notorious French Writer Faces Consequences for Pedophilia

Gabriel Matzneff faces investigation for decades of awful behavior

Why Greta Gerwig Deserved a Best Director Nomination for "Little Women"

With anyone else at the helm, "Little Women" would have been an entirely different movie

The Bizarre Scheme That Changed the Burial of Charles Dickens

Dickens never got the quiet, unassuming burial he painstakingly pretended to want

Alexis Coe Found a New Way to Write a George Washington Biography

But that doesn't mean the historian held anything back in her new biography on the first president