No surprise that Indian cinema has grown into the world's largest, perhaps the most vibrant, shaping cultural narratives in ...

A novel about the Parsi community, that provides a wealth of detail about traditional jewellery, food, nataks, calendars and death rituals, this is also the story of its women and their agency ...

Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools.

Henrik Pontoppidan's 'The White Bear' gives us two novellas that work in conversation with each other. Both feature burly, uncouth protagonists who endure episodes of childhood trauma and develop a ...

With his outstanding “The Hard Line,” Mark Greaney’s trademark style — his intense plotting emphasizing fast-and-furious action that taps into the changing political environment — continues to reshape ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...

Here is a suggestion for director Marc Bruni, scriptwriter Kait Kerrigan and the entire creative team behind the Roaring Twenties musical that launched its national tour Wednesday night from the ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

Kelly Rowland and Cliff 'Method Man' Smith in 'Relationship Goals' (Amazon) It didn’t used to be this way, but thanks to the magic of streaming you can now pause anything at any time and pick up on ...

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