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A psychologist, he wrote during the AIDS crisis about survivor’s guilt and depression in his H.I.V.-negative patients.

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has monster battles, a sorceress and dozens of thirsty suitors. Here’s a primer.

In Claire Vaye Watkins’s novel “Yellow Pine,” a single woman having an existential crisis decides now is the time to have a child.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca.

Gary Stewart spent a few years on top, but was largely forgotten after his tragic death in 2003. Now a new generation is rediscovering the onetime “king of honky-tonk.”

The Netflix series and its feature-length finale are based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman. Here’s a reminder of the events of the characters and where their stories left of.

A new collection of the famous graphic designer Seymour Chwast’s work for children “unearths a cache of lost treasures.”

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

For the comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.