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The prolific Charles Dickens had an imagination fired by the “marvelousness of everything.” ...

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Anna Mitchael, a longtime ghostwriter and former editor at the lifestyle magazine Magnolia Journal, tackles big issues in her ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

Lina calls it the South China Sea, while a neighbor says it’s the Baltic — he’d “know that blue anywhere.” Among Lina’s ...

Besha Rodell’s memoir, “Hunger Like a Thirst,” is also a fascinating capsule history of restaurant criticism.

A new novel from acclaimed poet and Massachusetts resident Ocean Vuong is earning high praise from Oprah Winfrey.

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, ...