An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich's book "Secondhand Time."

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In Netflix's 'Lady Dynamite,' Bamford mines comedy from mental illness.

Ryan Gosling gives a great comedic performance in this throwback from the writer of 'Lethal Weapon.'

Biographers try to see themselves in the reclusive poet, and fail to show us who she really was.

Patrick Kingsley’s latest book is an urgent appeal to humanity and reason.

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Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.

What Michael Bloomberg and Charles Koch really mean when they say colleges are "stifling free speech."