"Property: Stories Between Two Novellas" (HarperCollins), by Lionel Shriver If Lionel Shriver weren't such a terrific writer, she might have had a glorious career as a sociologist. In her latest...

A media watchdog group is calling on Netflix to pull its "13 Reasons Why" series because of potentially harmful content. The Parents Television Council describes the second season of the series...

Kat Edmonson, "Old Fashioned Gal" (Spinnerette Records) Kat Edmonson's "Old Fashioned Gal" sounds like an alternate soundtrack to an Audrey Hepburn film, 11 self-penned songs of gentle romance...

After 10 years of lean, threadbare, Lilliputian tales, Marvel Studios has, thank heavens, finally decided to go big. The scale of "Avengers: Infinity War," of course, isn't a departure for...

"Family & other Catastrophes" (MIRA), by Alexandra Borowitz Emily knew her family was flawed, but she had no idea the dysfunction could reach such epic levels until she comes home for her...

On 1 and 2 June, Stage Coach students will fill the Mediterranean Conference centre with magic of Vocal Aid 2018, a production that brings together all the students for a massive performance in aid of...

Perhaps the least surprising aspect of The New Yorker magazine's story on abuse allegations against New York's attorney general last week was Ronan Farrow's name on it as one of the...

Walter "Wolfman" Washington, "My Future Is My Past" (Anti-Records) Inside a New Orleans studio, Walter "Wolfman" Washington takes a sip of his drink, puts the glass down — ice cubes...

A goofy sense of inconsequentiality is an underappreciated trait in comedies. There's an abiding charm to movies so low in their stakes and so loose in their order that they feel as if at any moment...

Ray Bradbury won over generations of readers to science fiction with "Fahrenheit 451" and other works during a writing career that spanned much of the 20th Century and produced a mountain of...