Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

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Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.

When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.

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He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”

The country star supported early childhood literacy, disaster relief, the development of the Covid-19 vaccine and more.

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