Public schools are closed for the summer in Utah, leaving their libraries quieter than usual. But the books on their...
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Early in the fourth and final season of “Barry,” the titular hit man (played by Bill Hader) offers his broker...
Every year, when readers and bookies begin asking who is likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese...
CNN — Technology run amok and killer dolls (from “The Twilight Zone’s” Talking Tina to Chucky) are hardly new ideas,...
"Pastor Childs, are the allegations true?" Brown's Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs is asked near the outset, while leaving the specifics of...
On March 8, 1993, “Beavis and Butt-Head” premièred on MTV. The show’s title characters—two gross, immature, violent, strangely lovable, and...
Mat Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Humanities at the University of Oregon. His previous books include Pym...
THE IMMORTAL KING RAO, by Vauhini VaraThe premise of Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, “The Immortal King Rao,” is as simple...
“The only thing worse than having to go to work,” my father used to say, “is not having work to...
Max (Stéphane De Groodt) and Alice (Elsa Zylberstein) are trapped in a house by robots in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's sci-fi satire...