Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.

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The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.

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The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2,” by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair is a treasure trove of detail about McCartney’s ...

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The tendency of Marie Kondo, the queen of that movement, to cut out the most important pages of her favorite books and ...

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From new novels, nonfiction books and celeb memoirs, find your next fall read here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.