Frank Fritz and lifelong friend and reality-show co-star Mike Wolfe have reunited after nearly three years without seeing one another.
Two sisters and social-media influencers in Australia have joined together to write a cookbook.
Actor Al Pacino announced that he and his girlfriend Noor Alfallah (29) are eight months pregnant.
The Plot Thickens John Banville, the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" and numerous other acclaimed novels, has a pretty great side hustle: He writes crime fiction, presumably in his spare time, set in 1950s Dublin and featuring a troubled, hard-drinking yet brilliant pathologist know…
FICTION: Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" is "enthralling." "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" by Emma Törzs; William Morrow (416 pages, $30) ——— If Olivie Blake's "The Atlas Six" seduced you with its library of ancient secrets, if you swooned over Deborah Harkness' enchanted manuscript in "A Di…
Well, yes, you could go do outdoorsy things this summer. Or you could read. Here are six new books that are good summer reads. Wishing you a season full of good books! "The Guest" By Emma Cline (Random House, $28) Emma Cline's previous novel, "The Girls," followed a young woman in the throes…
FICTION: Luis Alberto Urrea's captivating novel dives into adventures of female volunteers in World War II. "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea; Little, Brown (416 pages, $29) ——— In the musical "Hamilton," George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, "History has its e…
FICTION: In Ore Agbaje-Williams' bitterly funny novel, a friend disrupts a volatile marriage. "The Three of Us" by Ore Agbaje-Williams; G.P. Putnam's Sons (192 pages, $26) ——— As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The mind games and layers of anger, grief and love that glued husbands and wives together offered a revelatory window into ...
Earlier this year, legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter made history as the first Black woman to take home two Academy Awards. Her win for 2018's "Black Panther" was the first in costuming for a Black person and the first Oscar for Marvel Studios. Her second, for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," marked another record: the first repeat in the category for an original film and its sequel. Safely ...
Review: When two moms drove their six kids off a cliff, this writer investigated what led them there
Don't Miss "We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death and Child Removal in America" by Roxanna Asgarian; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (297 pages, $28) ——— Roxanna Asgarian's shattering book is classified as "true crime" but it's less about solving murders — South Dakota natives Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their car, with their six drugged children in back, off a California cliff — than ...
Books in brief "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo; Simon & Schuster (416 pages, $29.99) ——— If anything, Ilyon Woo's subtitle, "An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom," undersells her spellbinding book of nonfiction. It's the story of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who fled a Georgia plantation in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen (her father was her owner) disguised as a ...
NONFICTION: Tracing the events that culminated in a 60-year-old murder. "Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night" by Lisa Belkin; W.W. Norton (402 pages, $29.95) ——— A doctor, a convict and a cop. Even though a bar will play a role, and two of those men will walk into it, this is no setup for a joke. Instead, the three mark the convergence of very different ...
CHICAGO — In the first nine days that Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was on tour this month for his novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” 23 mass shootings occurred in this country. More than 30 people were killed. Many more were injured. That’s according to the Gun Violence Archive, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that defines mass shootings as four or more killed or wounded. (They take their cue from the ...
Seven books — fiction, nonfiction and a graphic novel — that cue the waterworks. It's easy for a book to produce a tear or two from me, but I can only recall a couple that led to full-on heaving and ugly-crying: Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" (duh) and current bestseller "Hello Beautiful," by Ann Napolitano. Napolitano wrote the blockbuster "Dear Edward," which I liked, but it's nowhere ...
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