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Peter Lovesey, author of the Victorian Sergeant Cribb series and the Peter Diamond series, has died aged 88 following a…

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual…

Max Kozloff, a leading art critic who helped readers of The Nation and Artforum navigate the array of movements that…

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,…