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How the multi-hyphenate, biracial artist from Far Rockaway influenced 1980s graffiti culture and the downtown New York art scene.

“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.

Romantasies, paranormals and fantasy romances, just in time for Halloween.

The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.

Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.

The editor Ryan Fitzgibbon invited collaborators to toast “A Great Gay Book,” a new collection of pieces from his influential, now-defunct magazine, Hello Mr.

Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.

Our columnist reviews October’s new horror books.

A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.