"The Ophelia Cut" (Atria Books), by John Lescroart   A young woman makes a bad decision and her father ends up a murder suspect in "The Ophelia Cut," John Lescroart's...

Marshall Chapman, "Blaze of Glory" (TallGirl Records)   An opening duet cooks to a Bo Diddley beat. Next comes a searing Rolling Stones-style rocker, and then Marshall Chapman does...

Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in "After Earth," M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our...

"Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic" (Simon & Schuster), by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong   Jennifer Keishin...

Talib Kweli, "Prisoner of Conscious" (Javotti Media/Caroline Distribution)   Throughout his career, whether in his early collaborative work with fellow Brooklynite Mos Def in Black...

Professor Henry Frendo's latest two books, Europe and Empire (2012) and Party Politics in a Fortress Colony (3rd ed., 2013) were launched in London by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the...

For the first time there is an ‘alternative handbook’ that gives us a holistic view of the mysterious Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozo.  The handbook offers a different view and...

She & Him, "Volume 3" (Merge Records)   Is there any limit to Zooey Deschanel's creativity?   With her comical hit show, "New Girl," it's hard to...

Trace Adkins, "Love Will ." (Show Dog/Universal)   Trace Adkins works with five different producers on his 11th album, suggesting the country music veteran and reality TV star is...

Prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney delivers a gripping account of the wins and losses of hard-charging idealism on the front lines of the information wars in "We Steal Secrets: The Story of...