"Andrew's Brain" (Random House), by E.L. Doctorow   The narrator of E.L. Doctorow's latest novel, "Andrew's Brain," is a cognitive scientist with a guilty...

Jennifer Nettles, "That Girl" (Mercury Nashville)   As lead singer in the contemporary country duo Sugarland, Jennifer Nettles and partner Kristian Bush kept growing increasingly...

Having clung to the Russians as go-to villains long after the Cold War thawed, the movies find themselves current again with their favorite arch-enemy.   Cooling Russo-American relations...

"The Execution: a Jeremy Fisk Novel" (William Morrow), by Dick Wolf   Dick Wolf, creator of television's "Law & Order," follows his thriller "The...

Ir-Refuġjati f’Ħajti (Refugees in My Life) - by Charles Buttigieg the first Refugee Commissioner in Malta – was launched this week on the occasion of World Day of Migrants and...

It would be a wild exaggeration to suggest that "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" breathes new life into the increasingly fumes-fueled found-footage horror subgenre, but it certainly...

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA" (Scribner), by John Rizzo   There is a moment in John Rizzo's new memoir when the longtime CIA lawyer has the chance...

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Sylvester Stallone returns to the well of fan fiction by teaming with his onetime iconic-onscreen-pugilist rival, Robert De Niro, in "Grudge Match." Essentially recasting "Grumpy Old...

Can there be too much of a good thing? Where did that expression come from, anyway? If it's good, isn't more always better?   Discuss.   Or, actually, don't discuss....