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In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.

The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie indebted to the musician.

His essay warning that dictatorship was a real threat went viral, which prompted the early release of “Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — Again.” To relax, he reads the sports pages.

An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.

Our romance columnist recommends three terrific new books, but the one she loves most is Cat Sebastian’s “You Should Be So Lucky.”

“I don’t want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long,” says the best-selling novelist. “Funny Story,” about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.

These days, readings in the city can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as a trendy restaurant.

In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.

Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”

John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.