Anna Quindlen exposes NY social strata in 'Alternate Side'
Friday, 20 April 2018, 08:42
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"Alternate Side" (Random House), by Anna Quindlen Anna Quindlen has written a book that only a New Yorker — or at least someone who has lived there for a stint — could love. The rest...
'The Rising Sea' is entertaining and diverting read
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 08:39
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"The Rising Sea: a Kurt Austin Adventure" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown Kurt Austin heads the Special Assignment division of NUMA, the U.S. National Underwater and...
Disney's 'Wrinkle' is a cluttered, dizzying jumble
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 10:41
Last update: about 10 years ago
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Go ahead, pick your favorite young, villain-vanquishing fantasy heroine. Meg Murry probably came first. Katniss Everdeen? She arrived in 2001. Hermione Granger? That was 1997. Elphaba, the green...
'Stealing the Show' applauds women in TV
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 08:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television" (Atria Books), by Joy Press For the last 15 years, Joy Press has been writing about television for prestigious media outlets. She had...
'The Post' renews attention for Pentagon Papers ruling
Monday, 16 April 2018, 10:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
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Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated "The Post" has revived interest in the newspaper battles of the 1970s, the lives of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and executive Ben Bradlee and the...
Literary evening commemorating Kappillan of Malta
Monday, 16 April 2018, 09:31
Last update: about 10 years ago
Lee N. Abela, Joseph Galea and Clive Piscopo will interpret various excerpts from ‘Il-Kappillan ta’ Malta’ during a literary evening marking the official publication of the...
Odd lack of suspense permeates 'Day She Disappeared'
Monday, 16 April 2018, 08:35
Last update: about 10 years ago
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"The Day She Disappeared" (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Christobel Kent A lackluster plot with too many side stories and underdeveloped characters mar British author...
Nicholas Monsaart paid tribute to Gozo in The Kappillan
Sunday, 15 April 2018, 07:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
The official launching of the latest edition of Il-Kappillan ta’ Malta was held at San Lawrenz, Gozo, on Friday, 13 April, 2018. The novel, originally written by Liverpool-born Nicholas...
Tracy Morgan, Tiffany Haddish bring chemistry to 'Last O.G.'
Friday, 13 April 2018, 11:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
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TBS' "The Last O.G.," starring Tracy Morgan as a man just out of prison and learning his way around a changed world, also holds a lesson in comedy chemistry. Morgan's Tray has it with "Girls...
New HBO doc examines King's challenging final years
Thursday, 12 April 2018, 11:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
When a figure is as fundamental to our history and national identity as Martin Luther King Jr., is there anything left to learn about him? Actually, it may be precisely because King is such a...