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Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.

A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text.

In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”

Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.

An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.

He wrote lyrical poetry and novels about life in North Carolina’s Appalachian Piedmont and was considered the South’s “premier contemporary person of letters.”

He wrote lyrical poetry and novels about rural life in the Appalachian Piedmont, and was considered the South’s “premier contemporary person of letters.”

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

If your idea of festive joy is being haunted by past memories or driven insane by mysterious specters, have we got the tradition for you.