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Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

Dante’s Divine Comedy, a ‘biography’ of the Italian poet’s masterpiece by Joseph Luzzi, brims with facts but lacks any starry-eyed wonder ...

Purcell also points to Hieronymus: Omnium Operum, an academic commentary on the Bible, published in Basle, Switzerland, in ...

Three years after her death, I find myself having grown tired of Joan Didion.I am tired of the books about her and the book-length compendiums of her books. I am tired of her likeness in ...

Even in the 21st-century digital age, books haven’t lost their importance; they are still a reliable source for gathering information. Although we can now carry thousands of e-books on mobile devices ...

Curator, Anne Umland: This is a painting based on the adjacent collage. It’s one of a series of 18 that resulted from an assembly line experiment that Miró set for himself. He made these collages, ...

Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...