About 45 minutes into A Complete Unknown, Joan Baez tells Bob Dylan he’s “kind of an asshole.” As the scene plays, I suspect most viewers will agree because director James Mangold avoids the ...

Rarely do I go through a year without discovering at least one new film that I consider perfect enough to merit four stars. Alas, 2024 is one of them. In fairness, I have not seen everything (who can?

Amid a plethora of end-of-the-year best books lists, some noteworthy titles inevitably fall under the radar. The following is an attempt to broaden the range of 2024 highlights in the book world. The ...

It's no secret that as travelers become increasingly conscious of their environmental impact, destinations have scrambled to burnish their eco-credentials. But here's something you might not know: ...

Any movie split into multiple parts begs the questions: Can it be fairly rated as an individual work? Which part is most worthy of attention? Is it really a “movie” or theatrical miniseries?

Jacobsen doesn’t flinch from detailing the horrors and devastation of thermonuclear Armageddon. It takes a strong stomach to work your way through her account, but readers will come away with a keener ...

Readers are unlikely to come upon another book on this topic that so thoroughly explores its checkered past and describes in such detail the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that ushered in what we now ...

Donald Trump’s pick of twice-defeated Arizona gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake as director of the Voice of America seems ironic in that she’s the epitome of someone who has openly ...

Making a film about a terminally ill woman who must decide her own fate is a brave and challenging one for any director. Brave, because in the flashy, fast-moving business of today’s moviedom, such ...

Italy is a magical, mystical blend of timeless history and artistic masterpieces; scenery that will take your breath away; warm, friendly people who will make you feel like family; and all of it ...

Nick Harkaway, the pseudonymous author of the new novel Karla’s Choice (dubbed by the publisher “A John Le Carré novel”), is the son of John Le Carré, also a pseudonym. In a brief foreword, Harkaway ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate ...