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Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”

Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on Earth.

L.M. Montgomery’s oft-forgotten novel, which turns 100 this year, is more timely than ever.

The Oscar-nominated film is based on a 1992 book by the prolific Scotsman Alasdair Gray. Beloved by writers, “that’s not the same as being widely read,” says one of them.

In “Whack Job,” Rachel McCarthy James finds a connection between self-reliance and brutality. And for the record, she has questions about Lizzie Borden.