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On this week’s podcast, we talk to the novelist Grady Hendrix and TV showrunner Damon Lindelof about the work and influence of Stephen King.

A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.

For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising.

A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

New novels from Emily Henry, Jo Piazza and Rachel Khong; a history of five ballerinas at the Dance Theater of Harlem; Salman Rushdie’s memoir and more.

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

“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.”

In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”

The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.