"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...

"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...

In the provocative Lebanese film "The Insult ," a minor conflict over a gutter between two ordinary men in Beirut spirals and escalates to the level of national significance with the stability of the...

"City of Endless Night" (Grand Central), by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast returns to assist the NYPD with a baffling case in "City of Endless Nights,"...

As an entry into the pantheon of great newspaper movies, Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama "The Post" is inked with deep affection for the analog apparatus of the newspaper business, circa...

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...

In the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, a small U.S. Special Forces unit led an offensive against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. They worked in harsh conditions alongside a...

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...

Various Artists, "Strange Angels: In Flight With Elmore James" (Sylvan Songs) Elmore James has been dead 54 years, and the blues aren't doing too well either. This lively tribute album gives both...

Greg Barker had assembled nearly all his footage for "The Final Year," a behind-the-scenes look at President Barack Obama's globe-trotting foreign policy team, when something unexpected happened...