— In October 2016, Shailene Woodley was not paying much attention to work emails. The devoted environmentalist had gone to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and gotten arrested in the process....

The book is officially fiction: the story of a president who disappears as he tries to prevent an apocalyptic cyberattack. The authors, Bill Clinton and James Patterson, swear it could...

The fall television season is months away but that's no reason to stare moodily at a blank screen. In this era of peak TV, there are so many outlets and shows clamoring for your summertime attention...

Family and Friends, "Felix Culpa" (Family and Friends) The first full-length album by the indie folk-rock collective Family and Friends rings a few familiar bells. There's a jam-band vibe...

Writer-director Drew Pearce hadn't even sent out the script for his futuristic, hospital-for-criminals thriller "Hotel Artemis" when Jodie Foster called asking to be part of it. Foster said she's...

"A Little Piece of Light" (Hachette Books), by Donna Hylton with Kristine Gasbarre. Donna Hylton opens her memoir, "A Little Piece of Light," with an admission of guilt and remorse for her...

Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer hope they can change the world — one dinner plate at a time. The actress and the author have teamed up to produce the documentary "Eating Animals,"...

If the term "outlaw country" evokes images of Willie Nelson's hippie braids or Waylon Jennings' "Honky Tonk Heroes," then you'll want to see a new museum exhibit offering a deeper look at the poets,...

For anyone who has ever read "Crime and Punishment" and then really wanted to see a frat boy version — Bro-stoyevsky, if you will — your movie has finally arrived. "American Animals"...

"Blood Standard: a Novel" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Laird Barron Isaiah Coleridge, muscle for the Chicago mob's Alaska subsidiary, isn't your typical Mafia hit man. He's college educated,...