"The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky" (Knopf), by Jana Casale Leda walks through life with a constant friction between expectation and reality. We meet her as a self-conscious, hopeful college...

"Love and Other Words" (Gallery Books), by Christina Lauren Who hasn't wondered at one time or another about his or her first love? Does he still like to read? Is she just as sweet? With the help...

You might remember Nick Nolte's infamous mug shot from 2002, the one where the three-time Oscar nominee wears his hair wild and his shirt Hawaiian. But did you know he has another one from many years...

"Look Alive Out There: Essays" (MCD/FSG), by Sloane Crosley Established writer and best-selling author Sloane Crosley is back with a third book of essays. Ten years after the debut of "I Was Told...

Usually paired with smaller companions like Kevin Hart or Moana, Dwayne Johnson is for once the diminutive one in "Rampage," a hopelessly bland and bizarrely self-serious monster movie. Johnson...

"Macbeth" (Hogarth), by Jo Nesbo "Macbeth" is a modern-day drug-war, power-struggle, double-cross, lawmen-versus-gangsters recast of Shakespeare's Scottish play, "Macbeth." Set in an unnamed...

Chloe Zhao is driving through the Arizona desert just north of Mexico on a research expedition for a film. "I'm keeping an eye on the border," chuckles Zhao, a Chinese-born, U.S.-based filmmaker....

"Digging In: a Novel" (Lake Union Publishing), by Loretta Nyhan For the majority of her life, Paige depended on one person. Her husband was her rock, her equal and the one she could always...

He was once called the most likely American in the 20th century to become president. But Robert F. Kennedy's bid to follow in his older brother's footsteps as commander in chief was cut short the same...

British royalty has met acting aristocracy, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an honor on Maggie Smith during a ceremony at Windsor Castle. Smith, who plays the imperious Dowager Countess...