Like many people, the author tends to write a story in her head about the future of any relationship before it has even begun.

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Modern Love: Looking for Signs That It’s Meant to Be – Modern Love

After six decades of marriage and his wife’s decline, the author of a poignant essay killed himself and her, too.

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Love That Endured Alzheimer’s Ends in 2 Deaths

HG. Wells’s life (1866-1946) has always read like a novel. And now it is one. Or is it? David Lodge’s “A Man of Parts” hews closely to all the known facts about Wells, derives much of its dialogue from his letters and memoirs and includes no made-up characters. The book also draws many details from the numerous secondary works devoted to Wells and his distinguished contemporaries. After all, the author of “ The Time Machine ” and “ The War of the Worlds ” — not to overlook “ Tono-Bungay ” and “ The Outline of History ” — knew Henry James, Arnold Bennett, Bernard Shaw, Ford Madox Ford, the children’s author E. Nesbit, all the movers and shakers of the Fabian socialists, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky and many, many others. Read full article > >

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David Lodge’s “A Man of Parts,” reviewed by Michael Dirda

Historian David Starkey has told BBC’s Newsnight ”the whites have become black” in a discussion on the England riots with author and broadcaster Dreda Say Mitchell and the author of Chavs, Owen Jones.

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VIDEO: Riots: ‘The whites have become black’

Mr. Scott-Heron was the author of the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap.

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Gil Scott-Heron, Spoken-Word Musician, Dies at 62

A conversation with Karl Gerth, an Oxford professor and the author of “As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything.”

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Economix: The Impact of China’s Consumers

After David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, his editor, Michael Pietsch, traveled to the author’s home in Claremont, Calif., to go through what remained of his unpublished writing and to see what kind of shape it was in. It would have been surprising had the prolific Wallace — who wrote essays, short stories and journalism in addition to novels, and whose previous novel, “Infinite Jest” (1996), was more than 1,000 pages long — not left something behind for his friend to retrieve.

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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Pale King’: Plot takes back seat to mood and ideas

The publisher of a new novel created by J.J. Abrams, the “Star Trek” director and “Lost” co-creator, offered few details on the project except to say that it will be written by Doug Dorst, the author of “Alive in Necropolis.”

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ArtsBeat: J. J. Abrams Collaborating on Novel for Little, Brown

Perry Moore, a co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise and the author of a novel about a gay superhero, dies aged 39.

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Narnia producer Moore dies at 39

Nicholas Delbanco, the author of “Lastingness: The Art of Old Age,” responds to the review of his book.

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Letters: Read the Book Instead

A memoir about strict Chinese parenting reads as criticism of Western practices, but the author, Amy Chua, says some readers are missing the point.

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Cultural Studies: Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’

A US judge has dismissed legal action accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of copying the work of another author.

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Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed

A US judge has dismissed legal action accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of copying the work of another author.

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Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed

Colorado police arrest the author of a guidebook that gives advice to paedophiles, and charged him with violating obscenity laws in Florida.

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Paedophile book author arrested

Phillip Ray Greaves II, the author of a guide for pedophiles that caused an outrage when it was available for sale on Amazon’s Kindle store, was arrested on Monday on obscenity charges. Greaves was booked at his home in Colorado on a Florida arrest…

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Author of Pedophilia Book Arrested