Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
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The Woman Who Beat the Boys of the French New Wave to the Punch
A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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Jill Schary Robinson, Who Wrote of Her Hollywood Upbringing, Dies at 88
A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.
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Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.
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Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
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Baldwin’s ‘Blues for Mister Charlie,’ 60 Years After It Hit Broadway
On the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, a look at this revolutionary work that was a playwriting milestone for him.
By Anna Venarchik
More States Are Passing Book Banning Rules. Here’s What They Say.
Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.
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James C. Scott, Iconoclastic Social Scientist, Dies at 87
In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.
By Trip Gabriel
Jill Schary Robinson, Who Wrote of Her Hollywood Upbringing, Dies at 88
A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.
By Penelope Green
Edna O’Brien, Writer Who Gave Voice to Women’s Passions, Dies at 93
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.
By Anthony DePalma
FictionRomeo and Juliet, Plus Guns, Cults and Waco, Texas
An infamous 1993 siege provides the backdrop for Bret Anthony Johnston’s novel about star-crossed lovers.
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2 Dutch Novels Plumb the Gulf Between Order and Chaos
A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.
FictionA Cross-Country Road Trip, With a Hidden Body in the Back Seat
In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York.
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Gail Lumet Buckley, Chronicler of Black Family History, Dies at 86
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
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Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’
Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What’s not to love?
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