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The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture.

The host and author discusses “Padma’s All American,” which sees immigrants at the heart of the nation’s cuisine.

The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”

John U. Bacon, author of “The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” talks about the famous shipwreck.

The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.

In Guillermo del Toro’s new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created.

New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more.

The actor, now 87, talks about his childhood, the epiphanies in his life and more.

Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead.

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.