"The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection" (Current), by Michael Harris   I fall asleep to the glow of Netflix and, when I awake, begin...

The book  Dimech Poeta: Mill-ħabs għall-eżilju (Dimech the Poet: From prison to exile) by Jessica Micallef will be officially launched next Friday 5 September during the commemoration marking 100...

A brotherly reunion is coming to the City of Brotherly Love: Family band Kings of Leon will play its first show Sunday in Philadelphia since drummer Nathan Followill injured his ribs.   The...

The movie of the summer might have been Marvel's irreverent hit "Guardians of the Galaxy," the top domestic film at the box office. Or it could have been Michael Bay's...

"No Safe House" (New American Library), by Linwood Barclay   A family's past continues to haunt Terry Archer and his family as they find it impossible to move on with their...

Lauren Bacall had the look — cool and mysterious — and she had the sound, courtesy of that irresistibly low and throaty voice.   "She was sexy, she was saucy, and she...

Smokey Robinson, "Smokey & Friends" (Verve Music Group)   Smokey Robinson doesn't want to be a relic and that's understandable. He deserves for people to know his role...

After being clonked over the head in 1944's "Murder, My Sweet," Raymond Chandler's immortal private eye Philip Marlowe wryly narrated the experience of being knocked out: "A...

Chase Rice, "Ignite the Night" (Dack Janiels/Columbia)   On "Do It Like This," country singer Chase Rice suggests he and his friends prefer pulling out a fiddle at a...

A gay couple who have been together for almost four decades are separated — at least physically — by factors beyond their control in “Love Is Strange,” the latest tender and...