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He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.

A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

In a new memoir, the actor who couldn’t shake his breakthrough role on “Full House” talks about honesty, sobriety and his grief over Bob Saget’s death.

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

Long a favorite to receive the award, Fosse has found acclaim for work that explores mortality and religion, and radiates serenity.

The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.

The Nobel Prize winner writes about characters trying to transcend their worldly lives.

Your imaginary audience has a note taped to them: “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about stories, plots or characters. What do you have for me?”

Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In “The Sisters,” Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.