To call Katherine Howe's latest novel a ghost story would be an unfair oversimplification. Yes, there's a ghost. And, yes, it's a can't-put-down story. But it's much more than a young adult...

A number of Alfred Sant plays written in the seventies are being republished after more than twenty years in a new edition of Qabel Tiftaħ l-Inkjesta u drammi oħra (Before the Start of the...

Getting Aretha Franklin to sing for you could be considered a gift in itself. But the Queen of Soul has something special for Pope Francis when she performs for him at the Festival of Families concert...

Ramin Bahrani's "99 Homes" throbs with the public fury and private horror of the real-estate collapse. Set in the Orlando, Fla., suburbs, Bahrani plunges into the ugly, contentious dramas of...

The city that remains synonymous with America's auto industry has a newer identity as an emblem of urban decay. Its decline is all the more tragic when one looks in the rearview mirror to see how...

His upcoming four shows and likely more at MGM Resorts' new Las Vegas Arena next year aren't some re-emergence from retirement. The 63-year-old may have hung up his touring boots last year after...

Joe Urschel has written a compelling tale that looks at the turbulent year of 1933, and the narrative reads like the most nail-biting thriller imaginable - yet it's all true. The Dust Bowl was...

Producing the second soundtrack for the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" became a family affair for show creator Jenji Kohan. Kohan's 14-year-old daughter, Eliza Noxon, has the opening...

A family get-together starts out strange and quickly enters nightmare territory in "The Visit," a horror-thriller that turns soiled adult diapers into a motif. Told from a camera-equipped...

A nor'easter hits Paradise, Massachusetts, with a vengeance, burying the fictional coastal town in snow and collapsing a long-vacant industrial building on the edge of town. In the wreckage, police...