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Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.

His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

She has become known an Ibsen whisper, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.

There’s a way to classify screenplays for Oscar consideration that would reward creativity and make much more sense. Unlike the current system.

Akbar had a raging addiction and little reason to believe his life would turn out well. Now he has a debut novel, “Martyr!,” which makes you want to “get up and yell.”

“That you could collaborate with others and go out for boba tea was quite revelatory,” says the author of “The Expatriates,” which Nicole Kidman has produced (and stars in) for Amazon this month.

For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of Empires.”

His screenplay, based on his own youthful experience, was nominated for an Oscar. His other films included “Sweet November,” based on his own unproduced play.

After she and her husband, a fellow writer, saw work in Hollywood dry up during the Red Scare, they continued their careers in self-exile overseas.

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship.

After years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now. There’s much more competition. In a good way.”

Finishing “The Portrait of a Lady” leaves the author of “Old Crimes,” a new story collection, “a little more confident.” Meanwhile, Rod Serling has a place on her shelves.

Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books to help you explore the state’s many facets.

What could happen to the original version of Mickey Mouse and others after they entered the public domain on Jan. 1? Hint: think Winnie the Pooh wielding a sledgehammer.

This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.

“One must read between the lies,” he suggests, putting his own “Everywhere an Oink Oink” at the top of the list.