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In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

A new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust.”

The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”

Wildly popular strips like “Bloom County,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Cathy,” “The Far Side” “and “Doonesbury” peaked in the 1980s, but they left their mark.

Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.

In his books about Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and other figures on the right, he was, one observer said, “a keeper of the flame and spreader of the gospel.”

She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.

Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.