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The 10-episode series, premiering Friday on Disney+ and Hulu, adapts the children’s novels of R.L. Stine with a modern twist.

“Temple Folk,” Aaliyah Bilal’s collection of stories featuring Black American Muslims, was inspired by her family’s experiences with the Nation of Islam.

Lisa Tuttle’s “My Death” is short, uncanny, provocative, and pays tribute to a body of forgotten literature.

These spine-tingling thrillers involve talking animals, vampires and zombies, supernatural monsters and serial killers.

The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past.

“My favorite author was Madeleine L’Engle,” says the National Book Award-winning historian, whose new book is “Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation.” “In middle school I would ride the city bus to the public library

“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.

In “The Upside-Down World,” Benjamin Moser roams the galleries of the Netherlands in search of clues to the artists’ biographies.

Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”

The action against a Booker Prize winner was the latest in a growing crackdown on free expression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.