"Clock Dance: a Novel" (Knopf), by Anne Tyler If you had to identify a single theme in Anne Tyler's latest novel, it would be the importance of creating a surrogate family if your biological one...

A film written by a Maltese father and son will be premiering next month in a prestigious film festival in Austin, Texas. The film, called The Boat, was written by Winston and Joe Azzopardi, with...

FX is diversifying its offerings, picking up a drama about a cutting-edge tech company starring Nick Offerman, sinking resources into a limited series based in feudal Japan and returning for a fourth...

Tom Bailey, "Science Fiction" (Mikrokosmos/BFD) At its peak, Thompson Twins created some great 1980s synth pop, songs with refined melodies, thoughtful lyrics and a wide range of keyboard sounds,...

Not even Joseph Conrad had the courage to venture into that darkest of hearts: middle school. Bo Burnham's "Eighth Grade," however, plunges us into the day-to-day experience of a 13-year-old...

"A Terrible Country: a Novel" (Viking), by Keith Gessen With the United States in an uproar about Russian meddling in its election, it's a good time to brush up on the country's former Cold War...

The National Book Council has released the National Book Prize 2018 Shortlist for books published in 2017. The Adjudication Board communicated the choice of finalists yesterday during a formal...

Creators of "The Simpsons" have the freedom to handle the show's depiction of Indian shop owner Apu in the right way for their show, a top Fox executive said Thursday. Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk...

Stevie Nicks cried on her living room floor when she first saw LeAnn Rimes perform "Borrowed" on her TV in 2013. The song, about an intimate, yet fleeting romance between Rimes and her lover,...

"The First Purge ," the fourth film in the franchise, is an origin story set in modern day New York that allows creator James DeMonaco to do what he does best — mix social satire with doses of...