By A.O. Scott These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kids’ lives. By Travis Jonker The writer Kelsey McKinney tries to wrestle ...

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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s second novel is about three characters with things to hide in turn-of-the-20th-century New York Two new books -- “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild ...

Xavier managed to save his kids, Presley and brother James (Percy Daggs IV), but his missing wife is presumed dead, and for that, he blames Cal. That puts Xavier is a downer mood, which limits the ...

Often, they are neither. We start 15 years ago, in a pre-credits sequence featuring our ultra-cool co-spies . Their job is to pose as French arms dealers visiting the home of a shadowy Russian ...

Apparently not, says former Made in Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo. Toffolo has revealed that she and her fiance, Brewdog founder James Watt, conduct a quarterly review of their relationship four times ...

Charlie Gillespie is a revelation in Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark’s warm empty-nester dramedy, which shares the spirit of a great Nicole Holofcener indie. If you were to go into the winsome ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

A book celebrating letters speaks in its subtitle of gathering “memorable quotes from a moribund art.” What hope does an art have when even its votaries are sure of its demise? Rachel Syme is ...

A hospital where a worker stole drugs and needles in a bid to murder has failed to say what, if anything, it has changed in how keeps drugs safe. A review was held at James Cook Hospital in ...

In fact, as Elyse Graham shows in her snappy and entertaining Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, humanists and their comma-hunting, cross ...

Deva movie review: Shahid Kapoor turns a cop who is ready for bhasad ... He is dabangg (but not as swagger as Chulbul Pandey), he is a mafia in a police uniform and does gundagardi to get his work ...