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Actor-director Tim Matheson takes readers behind the scenes of more than a few of his hundreds of credits in the new memoir, ...

Richard Price may be the street’s premiere storyteller. The writer behind some of the best episodes of HBO’s “The Wire” as ...

Anna Moschovakis' 'An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" takes on a world defined by disruption, ...

The best way to read “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is with a pair of headphones and a collection of the band's albums on ...

James Magruder discusses his new book about the legendary theater, a few of its most notable names and productions, and its ...

EXCLUSIVE: Topic Studios, the company behind films including Spencer and Spotlight, has snapped up the rights to Emily ...

Much ink has been spilled over this presidential election—but not nearly as much as was used in a long history of presidential memoirs and biographies.

Never judge a book by its cover – even if the cover doesn’t say much at all. The first thing customers see when they walk ...

It is a dangerous precedent that cleverly endows hate with logic and respectability masking a markedly more malign and ...

What does Freedom of Speech mean in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? What does “free expression” mean? Is any ...

Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...