"Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel" (Simon & Schuster), by Martin Cruz Smith   Arkady Renko, the investigator of "Gorky Park" fame, is back in Martin Cruz Smith's...

AMC announced this week that the "Breaking Bad" spinoff, "Better Call Saul," will premiere in November 2014, but no specific date has been released.   The series will...

"The Invention of Wings: A Novel" (Viking), by Sue Monk Kidd   Meet Handful, 10 years old, a sewing prodigy and a slave. Meet Sarah, 11 years old, a voracious reader and...

    A look at some of 2013's overlooked albums, from rocker Joan Jett to rapper E-40 and the Craig Taborn Trio.   Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, "Unvarnished"...

Hollywood may be hoping for a little less drama in 2014.   2013 was a tale of two cinemas. Blockbusters like "The Lone Ranger" and "After Earth" flopped spectacularly...

"Little Failure: A Memoir" (Random House), by Gary Shteyngart   At age 41, Gary Shteyngart seems awfully young to be writing a memoir. But readers of "Little Failure"...

At the recent Book Fair held in November, children had the opportunity to get hold of Merlin Publishers’ latest picture books - three beautifully illustrated books that take us into Nora’s...

Sleeping dragons, as we know from our childhood literature, eventually awaken. If they didn't, there wouldn't be a story. So it's hardly news that in the second installment of Peter...

Marketed as Ben Stiller's bend toward drama, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" finds the actor, who also directed the feature, seemingly exuding super-human strength while jumping...

It's the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself.   Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the...