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Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and director Chris Columbus on their new adaptation, first-day jitters and their shared love of “Home Alone.”

They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.

Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea.

Our columnist on three notable new novels.

Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he’s collaborated with David Levithan on the novel “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”

The authors of two savvy new books offer hope that there’s more to being terminally online than sore thumbs and brain rot.

Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.”

In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.