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In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who…

The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.

The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is…

Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic…

Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a…

A few years ago, “Atlanta” and “PEN15” were teaching TV new tricks. In “Atlanta,” Donald Glover sketched a funhouse-mirror image…

“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to…

Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.

The recent late-life critical embrace of a generation of underappreciated major female artists — the 91-year-old nude self-portraitist Joan Semmel,…

THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…