Kwame Alexander's "The Crossover," a novel in verse about basketball and coming of age, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best children's book. Author-illustrator Dan Santat's "The...

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of student film lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury...

Ne-Yo, "Non-Fiction" (Motown) Ahh, Ne-Yo. So much talent - the voice, the songwriting. And yet, somehow, such a boring album. It's a little crazy-making, truth be told. All the ingredients...

Anne Hathaway was not supposed to star in "Song One," an indie musical about a disconnected 20-something in a crisis who finds herself in folkmusic. One year after its Sundance Film...

"Russian Tattoo" (Simon & Schuster), by Elena Gorokhova In 2011, memoirist Elena Gorokhova described her coming-of-age in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad, and her decision to marry an...

The Grammy Awards will feature a number of collaborative performances, including Lady Gaga with Tony Bennett and Adam Levine with Gwen Stefani. The Recording Academy said Tuesday that Annie...

Any film credited with its own "mustache wrangler" really should have been much more fun than Johnny Depp's latest misfiring action-comedy. Mostly set in contemporary England, but aiming for the...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will receive a lifetime achievement award, while National Book Award winner Phil Klay has won the John Leonard Prize for the best debut release of 2014, the short story...

Like so many parents, Ori Gruder was grappling with how to talk to his 10-year-old son about sex. Being a member of Israel's ultra-Orthodox religious community, which tends to keep discussions of...

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