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In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film.

Aaron Lansky spent a lifetime building the Yiddish Book Center, one of the country’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. He’s ready to hand over the reins.

She has become known as an Ibsen whisperer, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.

A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.

In Streisand’s new audiobook recording for her chatty, brick-size memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” the superlative diva adds a little freestyling.

While celebrating Jeremiah Brent’s first book, guests pondered the keys to a home, from lighting to artifacts of past lives.

Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death of well-known people.

After writing a best seller about the sinking of the Andrea Doria, he was a co-author with Richard M. Nixon, Patty Hearst, William S. Paley and others.

In Katherine Marsh’s new novel, the girl with the snaky curls loses neither her head nor her wits.

“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction.