‘The Rainmaker’ review: Colorful characters and mystery will hook you
Are we in for a new age of scripted basic cable television? Given the successes of the old age, which threaded its way between broadcast…
Books to read in August 2025
Reading List 10 books for your August reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
‘Washington Black’ review: Hulu miniseries amplifies action from novel
Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black,” a prizewinning story of race, romance, friendship and identity set in the early 19th century, has been translated by…
‘Gorky Park’ writer Martin Cruz Smith, acclaimed for his mysteries, dies at 82
NEW YORK — Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has…
‘The Institute’ review: Stephen King series pits children against adults
“The Institute,” a 2019 novel by Stephen King, Maine’s Master of the Macabre — or horror, I just said macabre for the alliteration — has…
‘The Payback’ review: Kashana Cauley satirizes student loan debt
Book Review The Payback By Kashana CauleyAtria: 256 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
‘The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy’: Romantasy, Part 1
Book Review The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy: Book 1 of the Dearly Beloathed Duology By Brigitte KnightleyAce: 384 pages, $30If you buy…
Books to read in July 2025
Reading List 10 books for your July reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org,…
‘Project Hail Mary’ trailer: Ryan Gosling goes to space, meets alien
Ryan Gosling puts the “not” in “Astronaut” in the new trailer for “Project Hail Mary.” The upcoming sci-fi film, based on Andy Weir‘s novel of…
‘I’ll Be Right Here’ review: Amy Bloom weaves Colette into bold tale
Book Review I'll Be Right Here By Amy BloomRandom House: 272 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…
Peter Brown’s ‘Wild Robot’ reboot for preschoolers stays true to fable
On the Shelf The Wild Robot on the Island By Peter BrownLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers: 48 pages, $20If you buy books linked on…
‘The Great Gatsby’ Black reimagining spotlights West Adams Heights
On the Shelf The Great Mann By Kyra Davis LurieCrown: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…
Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85
NEW YORK — Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s…
‘It’s Not the End of the World’ review: Future L.A. is a campy mess
Book Review It's Not the End of the World By Jonathan Parks-RamageBloomsbury: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may…
‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ cast and what else to know
Keiran Culkin is joining “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” as eccentric host Caesar Flickerman. An adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same…
‘Forever’ on Netflix shows why Judy Blume is hot in Hollywood
When Mara Brock Akil was a little girl, she voraciously read Judy Blume. Looking back, she sees her obsession as the start of her becoming…
‘Life of Pi’ at the Ahmanson review: Enchanting and profound
The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry…
‘Forever’ review: An ode to first love based on Judy Blume’s novel
“Forever…,” the 1975 Judy Blume YA novel about teenagers losing their virginity, has inspired a Netflix series with changes you’re free to regard as substantial…
‘The Director’ review: Novel fills in gaps of G.W. Pabst’s life
Book Review The Director: A Novel By Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross BenjaminSummit Books: 352 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The…
‘Miss Austen’ TV series review: A PBS Masterpiece ode to Jane
If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally acknowledged” marks the…