Books

In her new novel The Nine (out this week from She Writes Press), author Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg peeks behind the curtains of a prestigious east coast boarding school, where secrecy and scandal may as well be on the syllabus. This back-to-school…

Richard Linklater is a filmmaker who wears his heart on his sleeve, and that might be the key to understanding his filmography, which is about as erratic as one can imagine for a genuinely gifted director – when he’s on he’s untouchable, but when…

In "DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America" (out now from Little, Brown), author Beth Macy painstakingly charts the twenty-plus year history of opioid addiction in America, from the tiny towns of Central Appalachia to…

When four Wall Street big shots on a losing streak are thrown together to prove their dedication to their firm, they assume they’re in for an escape room challenge or similar “team-building” exercise. Instead, the four Stanhope & Sons associates…

Confession: We’ve been watching In Search Of… lately. If you’re not familiar with it, this was a syndicated series, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, that ran six seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in which Mr. Nimoy and his producers investigated…

August 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the first day of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, an “Aquarian Exposition” promising “3 Days of Peace & Music,” and delivering not only that, but the definitive gathering of the hippie generation – 32 acts…

You can barely turn on a television or click a link these days without hearing about how revolutionary 1969 was during this 50th anniversary year. But what exactly made that particularly year so vital, important, and influential? Historian Harlan…

Game of Thrones might have gone out with more of a whimper than a bang (at least if all of your tweets are to be believed) but hey, we’ll always have those early seasons – and, most of all, George R.R. Martin’s book’s. And that’s where our friends…

Hollywood satire meets crime fiction – an extremely Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup-style combination of two of our favorite flavors – in Plastic (out now from Rare Bird Books), the new novel by Frank Strausser. It tells the story of Previn, a fabulously…