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Pizza Hut’s Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans.

Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.

A maximalist comedy about the interior life, a riff on fatherhood and a return after four decades to a sci-fi classic are all worth close looks this month.

As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.

Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.

In “Feast While You Can,” two women who have long been nemeses rely on each other to face an ancient terror that has re-emerged.

“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.