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A house in France becomes an American writer’s portal to history

Jodi Picoult imagines a woman behind Shakespeare’s words

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Why writer AJ Jacobs took up his quill to live like a Founding Father

‘A landless Indian’ discovers a sense of home and identity

A century after his birth, writer and activist James Baldwin is everywhere

He invented a midcentury modern chair that defies space – and time