"Fifty Shades of Grey" has its male lead, again.   Jamie Dornan has been cast as Christian Grey, the lead role that Charlie Hunnam withdrew from recently. Dornan will star...

Along with writing novels, stories, poems and essays, Alice Walker has been keeping a diary.   The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple" has a deal with Simon...

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Europeana, Europe’s digital museum, library, gallery and archive, together with its Maltese partner, AcrossLimits, invites the people of Malta to The National Book Fest from 12-16 November. We...

Pearl Jam, "Lightning Bolt" (Monkeywrench/Republic)   Pearl Jam's "Lightning Bolt" is a rock jukebox set to shuffle.   The Seattle survivors' 10th...

George Clooney's World War II drama "The Monuments Men" is being pushed to 2014 and out of this year's awards season.   The movie will now be released in the first quarter...

"Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination" (Random House), by Jim Lehrer   "What if?" is a tried-and-true starting point for a novelist. In the case of "Top...

Newcomers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are the top contenders at the 2013 American Music Awards.   The rap duo is up for six awards, including artist, new artist and single of the...

In "Seduced and Abandoned," Alec Baldwin and James Toback present a portrait of today's movie business and an elegy to what it once was. In person, Baldwin's even more candid,...

"The Circle" (Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's), by Dave Eggers   A tech giant with tentacles deep into the lives of its users is no longer an unusual thing to imagine, but Dave...