Book Review: Signatures of Life
/A popular science writer looks at the evidence for life on other planets
Read MoreBook Review: Night Pilgrims
/The latest events in the life of immortal, imperturbable Count Saint-Germain find him in Crusades-era Egypt
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/Rousing naval action and atmospheric period drama share the stage in S. Thomas Russell's latest novel, by any other name
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: RED 2
/The old cast from "RED" reunites, along with some new faces - but is this sequel already showing cracks and wrinkles?
Read MoreBook Review: Eleanor and Park
/Two teenage misfits - neither vampires nor aliens - form an unlikely alliance that blossoms, naturally, into something more
Read MoreBook Review: Summertime, All the Cats are Bored
/A bored cop in a beautiful French Mediterranean town is suddenly confronted with a genuine murder mystery in the middle of a typical tourist summer
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka - The Years of Insight
/The latest volume in the author's magnificent multi-volume biography covers the last years of Kafka's life - years marked by passionate affairs, political upheavals, and the shadow of his final illness
Read MoreIn Paperback: Kafka - The Decisive Years
/Now in an attractive reprint from Princeton: the first volume in Reiner Stach's towering multi-volume biography of the 20th century's troubled literary godfather
Read MoreHelen Thomas
/Helen Thomas
Read MoreBook Review: Franz Kafka, The Poet of Shame and Guilt
/A short Kafka biography by a renowned historian makes some unconventional interpretations of the 20th century's most enigmatic writer
Read MoreBook Review: Hidden Order
/There's gunplay, there's skullduggery, there's the Federal Reserve, and there's the good old Freedom Trail - what more does a reader need on the arc from La Guardia to LAX?
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Grown Ups 2
/Endless back-flips alone, Mr. Anderson wryly observes, cannot save a film.
Read MoreBook Review: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
/A self-absorbed young Brooklyn writer (what else?) goes from relationship to relationship in search of ... what, exactly?
Read MoreBook Review: Weird Detectives
/In an entertaining new collection of good old stories, the boundary-line between Sam Spade and Mandrake the Magician is considerably blurred ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Shadow King
/After an unearthly quiet of nearly three thousand years, he's been the idol of the world for nearly a century - he's the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, and Jo Marchant makes his old story new again
Read MoreBook Review: 1940
/A spirited new account of the divisive American presidential election race that was held amidst the growing clamor of European war
Read MoreBook Review: Sea Change
/An inquisitive young woman falls in love with an ungainly, weirdly sophisticated alien creature
Read MoreBook Review: Homeward Bound
/A journalist looks at the movement among middle class American women of the 'millennial' generation toward embracing the domestic tasks their mothers and grandmothers cast off
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Despicable Me 2
/The reformed super-villain and his minions return in Illumination Entertainment's sequel to their surprise hit in "Despicable Me 2"
Read MoreArthur Rosenthal
/Arthur Rosenthal
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