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The British author died peacefully at her London home in the early hours of this morning, a spokesman said.

The Danish author on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged 10

"My dad [Antony Farrell] was a publisher, he set up Lilliput Press, which is still going. All of that was normal when I was a child."

Even for those well past school age, it’s hard to miss a bracing sense of new beginnings in the air. Try these audiobooks for that back-to-school feeling.

Throughout Olga Ravn’s latest novel, My Work, protagonist and new mother Anna repeatedly says she wants to write a “normal book.” It’s a brilliant refrain, because of course Ravn’s book is anything but normal, though it is an ambitious one.

Five things to know about Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa rich in gold and minerals, ahead of Wednesdays presidential and legislative elections.

The venerable publishing house Simon & Schuster will soon be owned by one of the nation’s biggest private equity firms, KKR. For a glimpse of their future — and tips

Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own.

The venerable publishing house Simon & Schuster will soon be owned by one of the nation’s biggest private equity firms, KKR.

Reconciling talent vs. character