Zofia Posmysz, who endured three years of imprisonment in concentration camps for associating with the Polish resistance to Nazi occupation in World War II, then gained acclaim for her works on the...
Read moreWelcome to Group Text, a monthly column for readers and book clubs about the novels, memoirs and short-story collections that make you want to talk, ask questions and dwell in another world...
Read moreLong before the car crash that led to the actress Anne Heche being declared brain-dead at the age of 53, her work onscreen was always on the verge of being overshadowed by...
Read moreLONDON — Dolly Alderton peered through the window of her old house in Camden Town, squinting to see inside the kitchen. She had last visited the tree-lined street in London the year...
Read moreJamie Foxx is a blue-collar vampire hunter and a steadying hand on the tiller of this frenzied action comedy.
Read moreOn a recent Tuesday evening, diners surrounded marble-topped bistro tables at Chez Maggy in the new Thompson hotel, open since February in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood. The draw: the opportunity to taste the...
Read moreRaymond Briggs, the children’s author whose cheeky illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of “The Snowman,” died on Tuesday in Brighton,...
Read moreWe would’ve just called her ONJ now. But part of the appeal, I think, was all of that name, the possible royalty of it. Nobody wanted to waste a syllable. Olivia Newton-John....
Read moreRETAIL GANGSTER: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy EddieBy Gary Weiss336 pp. Hachette Books. $29.The most famous TV ad in the Orwellian year of 1984, carefully themed to the novel named for...
Read more“I didn’t want to be defined by my illness, and I didn’t want to be seen as weak, but having Type 1 does make you different and it’s important that everyone around...
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