The movie poster for "The Good Lie" features a smiling Reese Witherspoon, front and center. But, truth be told, neither Witherspoon nor her character is the film's star - not in the essential sense....

"Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's 'Learned'" (Random House), by Lena Dunham In her new memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl," Lena Dunham relays a charming story about meeting...

A spooky surrealism has been the specialty of the Oregon-based animation studio Laika, the Pacific Northwest purveyors of 3-D stop-motion. The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and...

Looking for Easy Street? Just follow the horned Hellboy, badass biker Clay Morrow or Vincent the lion man from "Beauty and the Beast." The guy behind the facades is Ron Perlman, whose...

"Nora Webster" is a compelling portrait of a grieving widow's interior life as she slowly emerges from the pain of her husband's death. The story is filtered so completely through Nora's point of view...

After his debut novel L-Anġlu tal-Lament earlier this year, Carlo O. D'Emanuele is giving us yet another exciting novel to enjoy.Published by Horizons, Iż-Żeffiena tal-Kerubini, another...

"He did a lot of good." "I see him only as a dictator." "He had enormous energy." "You never knew what he was thinking." "He was authoritarian and despotic." "He subdued the sense of inferiority which...

Cutting the vast amounts of man-made pollution that feed global warming is an enormous challenge for societies that gobble up coal, oil and gas. But in "This Changes Everything," Naomi Klein argues...

I haven't needed to memorize a phone number since I bought my first cellphone 15 years ago. Now I couldn't recall a single number, not even my mother's (sorry, mom). After reading Nicholas Carr's "The...

In 1883, Texas Ranger William Ray Strong, assisted by the state's famous "hanging judge," Roy Bean, is on the trail of a serial killer who butchers Chinese railroad workers by cutting off their heads...