It sounds like a fluffy reality show: four high school buddies videotape their senior year...

The Scot is a critic of uncommonly wide interests in the American scene.

There just aren’t enough R&B, gospel, funk, or hip hop albums for kids!

Whether you bang out Friday puzzles and know a four-letter toiletry product is (almost) always “ATRA” or mull over Sunday puzzles for days, you'll dig the clue-by-clue musings of this blog.

One of the pleasures of this edition of Albert Camus’s late-life notebooks is in skipping around...

The blow dealt to the collective dinosaur image by paleontologists announcing that T. Rex was probably a scavenger is parried with this series and its CGI re-creations of dinos battling.

Brunonia Barry’s novel—the first of three books this year about her spooky hometown of Salem—concerns a family of fortune-tellers, not witches.

David Redmon's indie documentary contrasts the wild revelry of Mardi Gras with the hardworking girls who make breast-shaped beads (a popular new line) in Fuzhou, China.

This onetime management consultant's memoir is part ecofoodie tract and part wish fulfillment for any urbanite who's gazed enviously at the enlightened produce purveyors in the city's Greenmarkets.

Jean Echenoz’s novel evokes the last days of French composer Maurice Ravel.

Griselda Blanco isn't just Miami's Godmother, she's so evil she comes off as a South Beach Voldemort.

Sugarland's third disc, recorded live in the studio, captures the band’s grittier concert sound.

Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy — a group of three meta-fictional detective novels published in the mid-eighties — are undisputed cult classics.

And it is that rare "lost" album that deserves being sought out.

Science stars Leonard Susskind and Stephen Hawking squabbled for years over whether or not energy is destroyed in a black hole.

The restlessly creative (and constantly commissioned) composer Nico Muhly continues along his rigorously offbeat path on his second album.

Small aspiring authors thrill at the possibilities of this site, which lets writer-illustrator kids build, share, and win kudos for their picture books.

These essay have lost none of their urgency.

The novel turns the unwritten rule that a friend's ex is off limits on its head.

The ugliest part of Queens — Willets Point, or “The Iron Triangle” — never looked so stunning as it does in Ramin Bahrani’s neo–New York–realist film.