As sympathetic, methodical ghostbusters Lorraine and Ed Warren, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson make the old-fashioned haunted-house horror film "The Conjuring" something more than your...

"The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey" (Crown), by Lawrence Osborne   Looking to deal with a serious drinking problem, British novelist and travel writer Lawrence Osborne...

"My Education" (Viking) by Susan Choi   Our first glimpse of Regina Gottlieb is as a graduate student in her first days at a prestigious university. Somewhat naïve and more...

It's one of the saving graces of "Pacific Rim," Guillermo del Toro's new mega-budget monsters vs. robots extravaganza, that at a key juncture, it knows how to make fun of...

Elizabeth Morse, who made her fortune selling worthless herbal remedies to the gullible, is buying up huge parcels of timberland in Eastern Maine with the hope of persuading the federal government to...

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Court Yard Hounds, "Amelita" (Columbia)   The Court Yard Hounds open their second album, "Amelita," with a portrait of a friend who wallows in negativity. But the...

It would be dishonest to call "Grown Ups 2" the most repellent high-profile comedy in recent memory. But that's largely because few moviegoers have memories kind enough to have already...

"Environmental Debt" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Amy Larkin...

Ciara, "Ciara" (Epic Records)   The lead single from Ciara's self-titled fifth album, "Body Party," is an oozing, seductive R&B track that deserves rousing...