Dick Clark, ‘Bandstand’ Host, Dead at 82
Dick Clark, affectionately known as the “world’s oldest teenager,” has died. He was 82. Richard Wagstaff Clark became a national …
London Smash ‘Two Guvnors’ Comes To Broadway
If you weren’t a college theater major, you can be forgiven for not knowing much about commedia dell’arte, the 500-year-old …
In ‘Monsieur Lazhar,’ Grief Lingers In The Classroom
Teacher movies tend to be more alike than unalike, but Monsieur Lazhar makes the familiar unusually strange. The note on …
New In Paperback April 16-22
Fiction and nonfiction releases from Jo Nesbo, Albert Brooks, Jo Ann Beard, James Tate and Stephen Baker. [Copyright 2012 National …
Nostalgia Is Anywhere But Here
It feels redundant, and maybe a bit solipsistic, to study the mechanics of nostalgia too closely. It means watching ourselves …
Paging Dr. Freud: A Viennese Espionage Thriller
Waiting For Sunrise, William Boyd’s twelfth novel, opens on the streets of Vienna in August 1913, on the eve of …
Tina Brown’s Must-Reads: The Reporter’s Role
Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, tells us what she’s been reading in a feature that Morning …
Rice: A Rainbow Of Possibilities
My first memory of rice is not of it being eaten but of it being thrown. It was during my …
On Writing A Bestseller (There’s a Formula, Shhh…)
Like many people in the book world, I’ve found it impossible to ignore the phenomenon that is E.L. James’ erotic …
Let’s Rush To Judgment: ‘Looper’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s in the midst of a hot streak. Actually, by anyone’s count, he’s been in one for a while, …
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