This was the situation with my stepfather, which sounds like a Shakespearian tragicomedy. Even before he reached his 80s, my ...

The story takes place in Madrid in 1988, where an 8-year-old girl named Elena lives with her parents and grandmother in a ...

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It’s a fun hybridization of hardboiled pessimism and comic flamboyance, and Nicolas Cage is ideal in the leading role. Cage ...

We show up to these digital flickering hearths every night for the same reason our grandparents went to the diner: just to be ...

White River Crossing. by Ian McGuire. Crown. 274 pages. Gold is the driving force behind the action in Ian McGuire’s new ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...

When I first met Kristoffer Polaha, it was 2003 and he thought he was going to be one of the biggest stars in the world. I know this not because the then 20-something actor wore the guise of a big ...

2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the successful follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s a film that has been praised by audiences and critics alike with its undeniably flashy ...

John Banville is a vastly gifted (and almost ridiculously prolific) author. With 23 novels to his credit—not including at least 10 so-called “Quirke” mystery novels—perhaps the most remarkable aspect ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...