Book review: Missing family? Mysterious calls? ‘This Plague of Souls’ is full of suspense
Back home from prison, a father is confronted with myriad questions: An unsettling novel by Mike McCormack.
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In Books: I refused to review the new John Grisham. (It’s that bad.) Read ‘Stolen Coast’ instead.
In this clever noir thriller by Dwyer Murphy, the bad guy has a conscience.
Author Ann Patchett on Kate DiCamillo, ‘Cats’ and the novel that went disastrously wrong
She's funny and thoughtful in conversation, but the key takeaway is this: She loves writers. When asked for the highlights of her own story, the author, bookstore owner and Pulitzer...
Fall books: From Barbra Streisand to Sly Stone, 12 stars are hitting the shelves
Favorites like Alexander McCall Smith are publishing this season, too. But first the leading lights, who also include Stephen King, John Grisham and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Like a lot of us, A.J. Jacobs spent a chunk of the past two years doing puzzles, but at least he got a book out of it. "The Puzzler," which...
How bestselling author Amor Towles built ‘The Lincoln Highway’
Amor Towles' novels, including the bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow" and his new "The Lincoln Highway," are so distinctive that they read like the works of different writers. In a...
Novelist Anthony Doerr’s follow-up to his Pulitzer winner is bigger and more ambitious
Think of Anthony Doerr's new novel as "All the Plot Connections You Cannot See." Like Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning "All the Light You Cannot See," his "Cloud Cuckoo Land" includes two...
As the Olympics approach, enjoy the 7 best sports documentaries ever made
Hollywood often turns to the world of sports for subject matter, but there's a problem with almost all of the based-on-a-true-story films: The real stuff is a lot more interesting....
With ‘Cruella’ in theaters, a look at the 7 best Disney classics
I guess I'm princess-phobic? I don't care about royalty in real life or on the screen, and that goes double for animated movies. As "Ratatouille" and "The Incredibles" filmmaker Brad...
7 of the best movies by Steven Spielberg, a crowd-pleaser and a die-hard movie fan
Right off the bat, Steven Spielberg was a crowd-pleaser. He grew up making elaborate home movies and sneaked onto movie sets as a kid, which must have given him enough...