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A novelist and screenwriter, he wrote “The Pope of Greenwich Village” and “Family Business” and brought them both to the big screen.

Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”)

His go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires “Brothers and Keepers” and “The New Jim Crow” on incarceration. “The River Is Waiting” is his new novel.

He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society’s marginalized.

He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry.

Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.

In Polly Stewart’s novel, “The Good Ones,” a professor investigates what happened when her best friend vanished 20 years earlier.

For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.

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