A former top CIA official whose 33 years of service included the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the death of Osama bin Laden has a book deal.   The publisher Twelve has acquired...

The British Library has been given letters and lyrics by John Lennon under a program that accepts donations of art and cultural artifacts in place of tax.   The Arts Council said Thursday...

It seems quite apt that "The Best Man Holiday," a film about a reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual reunion. In ways both bad and good.   A reunion, you see,...

"A Prayer Journal" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Flannery O'Connor   Flannery O'Connor's "A Prayer Journal" is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to...

When Alex Gibney set out to make a movie about cyclist Lance Armstrong's 2009 Tour de France comeback, the documentarian admits he bought into the hype: The man who'd cheated death was coming...

Early last century, Juan Mamo wrote the Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerika, which, with its blunt and iconoclastic prose, risqué jokes and graphic descriptions of a low-life Malta venturing out of...

Comic book movies are increasingly, like Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," lost in space.   Following the summer's glumly bombastic "Man of Steel," which added a heavy...

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One of Andrew Lincoln's favorite moments from "Walking Dead" came during his first season on the show.   Here was the British actor shooting his way through a foreboding urban...

M.I.A, "Matangi" (Interscope)   Named after a ghetto Hindu goddess, M.I.A.'s fourth proper album pops with a relentless pounce and is filled with all the paradoxical imagery...