For three straight years last century, the diminutive actor was Hollywood’s undisputed box-office champion, and the ...

Like it or not, the button has served as a creative catalyst, a dopamine delivery system and an emotional battering ram. It ...

Ten years later, it’s still a minor miracle that a 700+ page novel about the ceaseless trauma inflicted upon one gay man would be not only a bestseller but a wildly controversial leader of the ...

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy recounts the adventurous life of Bilbo Baggins, which he writes about to his nephew, Frodo.

In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

Florence Knapp thanks her two book clubs in the acknowledgments of “The Names,” which seems especially appropriate because her debut novel has “book club” written all over it. Specifically, it has my ...

The inventor of the lovable but imperfect Moomins created the characters and their world as a way of bringing light after the ...

“Ghosts of Iron Mountain,” “Turning to Birds,” “The Imagined Life,” and “My Name Is Emilia del Valle.” ...