Ray Bradbury won over generations of readers to science fiction with "Fahrenheit 451" and other works during a writing career that spanned much of the 20th Century and produced a mountain of...

"The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Leslie Jamison With a somber tone, intricate detail and multilayered storytelling, Leslie Jamison's "The Recovering:...

"The Cutting Edge" (Grand Central Publishing), by Jeffery Deaver What appears to be a diamond robbery ends up being much more sinister in Jeffery Deaver's latest thriller, "The Cutting...

Robert Caro has been thinking a lot about the 1960s. The Pulitzer Prize winning historian shared some observations this weekend — and some insights into his famously thorough research...

"And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready" (Little, Brown and Company), by Meaghan O'Connell Having a baby — especially before you're ready — is no small...

If Lesley Manville's Oscar-nominated portrayal of an icy, unyielding family gatekeeper in "Phantom Thread" sent shivers down your spine, "Mum" is the antidote. In the U.K. sitcom available on...

The movies, it seems, are increasingly headed down paths in the woods, out to open water and, in the case of John Curran's excellent new film "Tracks," into the deepest reaches of the...

"Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir" (Penguin/Blue Rider Press), by Wendy Davis, and "Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World" (Ballantine Books), by Kirsten...

Tim McGraw, "Sundown Heaven Town" (Big Machine)   Twenty years after his breakthrough hit, "Indian Outlaw," Tim McGraw still pushes at country music's boundaries. His...

Keith Miller was a bruising fullback out of the University of Colorado who never quite made it to the National Football League. He has, however, become a star at the Metropolitan...