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The unlikely collaboration of two academics, “Convent Wisdom” provides unholy guidance by intertwining religious history with popular culture.

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.

This Friday the 13th, Mexican tattoo artists are memorializing their heritage and history with storytelling that is more than skin deep.

The beloved books-turned-films' stars Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel reunited.

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