Books and Literature – Page 32

Is ‘The Idea of You’ Harry Styles Fan Fiction?

The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie indebted to the musician.

By Esther Zuckerman

After their 2021 wedding, John Murray and Kimberlee Stevenson experienced much heartbreak. Now comes joy.

By Alix Strauss

Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose discuss the new translation of Chekhov that brought them to the farm.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

At 83, the novelist and professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, likes to “go into the new.”

By Ruth La Ferla