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Linda Williams, a scholar whose research was foundational to the field of film studies and to feminist film theory, and…

Dag Solstad, a Norwegian novelist who teased form and style to create a world of alienation and disenchantment, enthralling and…

Chris Moore, a British artist who conjured fantastical worlds with high-sheen covers for books by science-fiction masters like Philip K.…

Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with…

Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the…

Peter Elbow, an English professor whose struggles with writer’s block led him to create a new way of teaching freshman…

The trade has paid tribute to the novelist Simon Mawer who has died. His long-time publisher, Little, Brown imprint Abacus,…

Anson Rabinbach, the hardscrabble son of radical New York garment workers who paid his own way through college to become…

Suzanne Massie, who was neither an academic Russia expert nor a diplomat, but who in some 20 visits to the…

William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died…