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Sara Levine’s “The Hitch” is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all.

The author and the actors Emily Bader and Tom Blyth explain why the movie differs from the novel and raise the possibility of spinoffs.

“The Old Fire,” an atmospheric new novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.

When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.

The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.

His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the radical founder’s strange and winding story.

Evans’s epistolary tale, about a retired lawyer who spends her days writing to a series of pen pals, became one of last year’s sleeper hits.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this week, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of his strange and winding story.

Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated “concept” books have never had a more potentially receptive audience.