Arts

Ama Ata Aidoo, the iconic Ghanaian writer whose classics The Dilemma of a Ghost and Changes were taught to children in West African schools for decades, has died aged 81....

Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J. Newman ’s 2021 debut novel “Falling” (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster) begins with a sentence...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday, early February, and I’m stepping off a plane in Sarasota, Florida. I’ve come to visit Caroline Calloway, scandalous internet celebrity. (“Scandalous internet celebrity” is...

Review Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books A tale of folklore and magic from Angie Thomas, a hidden land of nature’s wonders and a town full...

Review On Marriage by Devorah Baum review – endless love or life sentence? The author and film-maker explores the landscape of matrimony in an erudite and entertaining quest for enlightenment...

At home in Buffalo, NY, the actor Stephen McKinley Henderson said he was enjoying watching his grandchildren play. “I tell you, there was no way for me to see when...

I’ve beaten Ernie Pyle’s lifespan by 10 years. Came 10 feet from losing that race, with a mortar landing on that side of a T-Wall in Iraq, instead of this...

The arts have taken such a battering in the UK over the last decade that they sometimes seem like an old ship holed beneath the waterline, with an orchestra valiantly...

Queen gave ‘express approval’ for books Queen Elizabeth’s former dresser Angela Kelly is not departing quietly to the grace and favor home in the north of England given to her...

George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series has been a fantasy stalwart since it first debuted in 1996, and it’s only grown in influence thanks to...