"The Double" (Little, Brown and Co.), by George Pelecanos   Spero Lucas joined the Marines, got shipped off to Iraq, fought house-to-house in Fallujah and came home in one piece to...

Katy Perry, "Prism" (Capitol Records)   Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" was perfect pop pleasantry, full of back-to-back hits that were oh-so-fun and addictive, fused...

Joven Grech and Cyprian Cassar, better known as the trance music duo Tenishia, have once again made it to the top 100 world DJs list of the influential UK-based DJ Magazine. An estimated 35,000 DJs...

"Blue is the Warmest Color" arrives in the United States from France this week — and it's bringing along some baggage.   On the plus side, the intense and soulful lesbian...

Horizons has just published Budulienko, is a modern poetic remake of a classic Czech folk tale, told from generation to generation. The story – in Maltese and English - revolves around a little...

"Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind" (It Books), by Gavin Edwards   Everything in life seemed to come to actor River Phoenix before he was...

During one of her last visits to the Winter Garden Theatre, Judy Craymer took in the empty seats, the elegant gilding and the ghost light quietly burning onstage.   "I love an empty...

Is it possible to convey, through the experience of just one man, the sweep and enormity of the horror that was American slavery?   That, quite simply, is the formidable task that British...

"Johnny Carson" (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Henry Bushkin   Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned.   "You must never, ever repeat a word from last...

Willie Nelson, "To All The Girls ." (Sony Legacy)   Willie Nelson's "To All The Girls .," an album of duets with female partners, is custom-made for the download age....