With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

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You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Emily Brontë’s Gothic story of love and revenge. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review and the host of the Book Review ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...

James Grippando’s novels about Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck offer a compelling meld of Florida’s legal system and contemporary issues, with domestic drama and the value of friendship ...

Patrick Dempsey may still have his silver fox hair and a disarming glint in his eyes, but don't look for comforting hugs and romantic meet-cutes in his latest TV role. No, the one-time "Grey's Anatomy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first three minutes of Fox’s Memory of a Killer, Patrick Dempsey’s Angelo projects suburban normalcy. He visits his ...

“Memory of a Killer” has a lot going on. On the one hand, that’s a good thing; through the first two episodes, the Fox thriller series keeps the plot developments and action scenes coming at a brisk, ...

Based on a Belgian novel and film, the thriller focuses on a killer-for-hire who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Because Angelo isn’t a boring suburban ...