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Stefanie Joseph and Christopher Richards, who met on a dating app three years ago, immediately bonded over their love of reading.

The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep’s clothing.

Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital.

The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.

As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.

Major publishing houses risk unwittingly putting out books generated with A.I. tools. Authors and readers are frustrated, nervous and grasping for solutions.

Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly all of American popular music.

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.

This year’s winners include the latest novel by the South Korean Nobel laureate in literature and a memoir by one of India’s best known novelists.