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In "The Enchanted April," by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.

JR & Son is a new-old establishment that conjures the past while deliciously disrupting expectations.

The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls "urban panorama"--a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of city life.

In Tod Papageorge's photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions.

Favorite spots in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Berkeley, and western Maine.

After being acquitted of the charges that would have put him away for life, Sean Combs likely has a plan to work his troubles into a narrative of redemption.

"After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets--and kept studying."

On "Virgin," the pop star examines the myths that make up her identity.

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The Italian writer, once Mussolini's pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe's horrors.