Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American...

Prize-winning children's author Matt de la Pena has a new picture book planned for the fall that his publisher is calling "poignant and timely." G.P. Putnam's Books for Young Readers told The...

"Operator Down" (Dutton), by Brad Taylor "Operator Down," Brad Taylor's latest in his best-selling Pike Logan series, showcases a few of the best supporting characters in another tale that feels...

It's startling how few filmmakers have tried to tackle terrorism with anything beyond a standard procedural account. It's less surprising that one of the few to really grapple with a response is Fatih...

The wealthy, reclusive patriarch of the Morse family summons his estranged children and grandchildren to his mansion in rural Connecticut, but the first to arrive find him dead in his study. His face,...

Enemies are thrown together for a perilous journey in "Hostiles ," an unforgivingly violent and sparse revisionist Western set in 1892 that explores the traumas of American westward...

"Just Between Us: a Novel" (St. Martin's Griffin), by Rebecca Drake Four friends delve into unfamiliar territory when three of them realize they must intervene to save the fourth in "Just Between...

Meryl Streep is starring in season two of "Big Little Lies," adding more woman power to the Nicole Kidman-Reese Witherspoon drama. HBO said in a statement Wednesday that Streep will play Mary...

Candice Bergen is returning to TV in a revival of "Murphy Brown," the agenda-setting 20th-century comedy. CBS said in a Wednesday announcement that it's ordered 13 episodes of the sitcom for its...

Dakota Fanning was unfazed by being on her own for six months in Budapest or the dark nature of the TV series that brought her there, TNT's adaptation of "The Alienist," Caleb Carr's 1994...