Books

It’s sad that a cool cat like Detective Jimmy Robertson had to go down for such schmucks as these. The Fuerte cartel’s black ice smuggling ring, coordinated by murderous branch...

Ask readers to list Emily Henry books in order of their most to least favorite, and you’ll get a different answer each time. In fact, I’d argue that your number...

The idioms of a language—its jokes, expressions, and well-worn wordplay—are windows into its speakers’ values and points of view. In both French and English, certain phrases—métro, boulot, dodo (“commute, work,...

The logline for Matthew Specktor’s memoir, “The Golden Hour,” could easily imply a Hollywood tell-all. Specktor is the son of a well-connected movie agent, Fred Specktor, which meant he had...

While recent adaptations of Agatha Christie novels have taken a lot of liberties with the mustery author’s stories, they still tend to hew to a traditional structure: We meet the...

The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense’s school system for removing books that reference “race and gender” from its libraries....

Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books: $28) An accomplished actor grapples...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find books related to diversity, equity and inclusion, according to new memos obtained...

A small town bookstore in Michigan took a novel approach to moving. About 300 residents in the small Michigan city of Chelsea formed a “book brigade” to help move Serendipity...

I feel like I’ve seen 200 Jason Statham movies in the past couple years, and I keep waiting for the next one to be one too many. A Working Man...