Books

Everyone loves small-town-with-dark-secrets stories. But sometimes they get too dark. We actually enjoy the ones where, yeah, there is an inordinate number of murders, but there’s also a rivalry regarding...

Read Across America week starts on March 2nd. The week is dedicated to getting kids and adults to read. It takes place around the birth of the beloved author Dr....

Spring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and...

Before Joseph Wambaugh came along, the unofficial bard of the Los Angeles Police Department was Jack Webb, whose unsmiling Sgt. Joe Friday peppered every episode of “Dragnet” with homilies about...

Nickel Boys (now streaming on MGM+) is a tough but essential watch. The story of two Black teenage boys interned in a brutal reform school in Jim Crow-era 1960s Florida,...

You better be trilling the crap outta those Rs when you say The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (now streaming on Max), or there will be...

In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, the British captured Savannah, Georgia, as part of a “Southern Strategy” that aimed to rally support from Loyalists in the region. The following year,...

More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. ...

I’m a hard target for Ross Douthat’s evangelism. When I got a copy of his new book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, I felt an impulse to answer, Nope:...

It’s overwhelming to think of how carefully tracked we are by private interests at this point in time: what we buy, what we watch, what we search online, what we...