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A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach’s novel comes out in paperback this week. It’s a book she didn’t want to write.

An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.

The picture books “Bored” and “Endless Afternoons” are odes to the joy of having nothing to do.

New works by Christy Mihaly, Carole Boston Weatherford, Howard W. Reeves and Derrick Barnes show that there is still much to celebrate, rebel against and amend.

In books like “The Cheese and the Worms,” he helped push beyond the story of great events and leaders, entering the minds and hearts of peasants.

Resort book clubs, tour companies, hotel libraries and a growing number of literary festivals are offering readers new ways to indulge their interests.

Caissie Levy was Broadway’s first Elsa. She starred in “Hair” and “Ghost.” And now, for “Ragtime,” she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.

Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.