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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.”

In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal.

In a new novel, Helen Oyeyemi details a week inside a woman’s fragmented consciousness.

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women.

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs.

In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

But there is a place for the Bible, says the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is celebrating its centennial.

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

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

Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future.