"Mothers of Sparta: a Memoir in Pieces" (Flatiron Books), by Dawn Davies What's in a life? Forget celebrities and superstars, or Nobel Laureates and the like, the people who live in the...

"Killer Choice" (Berkley), by Tom Hunt Gary's pregnant wife, Beth, has a brain tumor. It's going to take $200,000 they don't have to save her. Fittingly, that's how much a drug dealer across town...

The big draw following the thrilling Super Bowl was a fresh episode of "This Is Us." But, very mysteriously, there was suddenly something else big to see. Netflix surprised nearly everyone by...

"The Monk of Mokha" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Dave Eggers As legend has it, coffee was born in Yemen, when a Sufi brewed the beverage to fuel his late-night devotions. Roughly 700 years later, a...

English actress Andrea Riseborough ("Birdman," ''Battle of the Sexes") may be the MVP of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with four films playing in Park City, Utah. There's "Mandy," a revenge...

"When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" (Riverhead Books), by Daniel H. Pink It's January; time to make room in the self-improvement section of your bookcase. "When: The Scientific...

Moviegoers who come late to the "Maze Runner" franchise, which now numbers three, will doubtless have one very reasonable question: Where, pray tell, are all the mazes I was promised? Alas, the...

"The Weight of an Infinite Sky" (William Morrow), by Carrie La Seur For young dreamers who long to escape the sleepy town where they grew up for a more exciting and fulfilling life, the question...

Calexico, "The Thread That Keeps Us" (Anti-Records) If the atomic scientists were listening to music when they recently moved the Doomsday Clock up to just two minutes to midnight, it may well...

Lawyers for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to review a federal appeals court decision that held his confession was...