‘Hunger Games’: Mortal Combat As Appointment TV
Hungry for a good dystopia? Well, as you may be gathering from reports of the millions of tickets sold before …
‘The Raid’: Hand-To-Hand Thrills In A Jakarta Slum
Arguably the most dynamic Asian action film since the 1990s peaks of John Woo and Tsui Hark, The Raid: Redemption …
Searching For ‘Bliss,’ But In Desultory Fashion
The hapless hero of The Trouble with Bliss, a quirky, self-consciously literary new film by Michael Knowles, has more than …
What Fans Will Love, And What They Might Not, In ‘The Hunger Games’
The Hunger Games opens tonight after massive amounts of promotion, having already sold out more than 2,000 shows, according to …
Acting Trumps Action In A ‘Games’ Without Horror
Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games and its two sequels are smashingly well written and morally problematic. They’re set in …
‘Hide Me’: Not Your Typical Teen Vampire Tale
Vampires have come a long way, baby. Stories about the bloodsucking villains have been around, in one form or another, …
‘Wonder’ What It’s Like To Have Kids Stare At You?
Raquel Jaramillo’s debut novel, Wonder, written under the pen name R.J. Palacio, was born out of a rather embarrassing incident. …
Skirting The Job: 3 Secretaries With Novel Ideas
Ever wonder what those secretaries on Mad Men are tapping out on their tank-like typewriters? I’m sure it’s mostly letters …
‘Battle,’ ‘Games’: Cold Brutality A Common Theme
Perhaps you’ve heard of a wildly popular novel about teenagers fighting to the death in a televised match meant to …
New In Paperback March 19-25
Fiction and nonfiction releases from Billy Collins, Cara Hoffman, Adam Hochschild, Robert Baer and Alexandra Styron. [Copyright 2012 National Public …
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