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The twin sisters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush published their third picture book this week. They sat down to discuss fighting, writing and chosen family.

A new edition of the best-selling romance writer’s 1950 novel removes blatant Jewish stereotypes, stirring debate about whether to tinker with older works.

Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and tropical, dense and isolated. Augusto Higa Oshiro, one of its writers, recommended books and authors that have captured its complexity.

The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.

He wanted to put a face on the source of cells that led to striking medical advances, and through him a best seller and a movie did just that, telling Mrs. Lacks’s story.

Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neuroscientist argues. It might also be liberating.

An anthology that combines new work with selections from The Brownies’ Book, a children’s magazine launched by W.E.B. Du Bois, is bringing its mission to bear in a new national context.

Four recent books wrangle with threats to — and from — the American news media.

In a new memoir, Rich Paul, known to many for his long association with LeBron James, details his difficult upbringing and the valuable lessons it taught him.

For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.