Discover the reason director David Cronenberg decided to adapt the 2003 novel, 'Cosmopolis', for its cinematic debut. A true ...

A powerful exploration of racial injustice, adapted into a classic film. A gripping tale of hope and friendship in prison. A seminal crime saga that redefined the genre on screen. A visually stunning ...

Charles Baxter’s novel charges along so boisterously that it’s easy to forget the author is batting around some of the weightiest concerns of human experience. John le Carré’s son Nick ...

Most writers grow up in homes filled with books. Not this writer. My parents’ book collection, accumulated over their nearly ...

M. Night Shyamalan's favorite movies include a mix of genres, from horror to comedy, but they all have one thing in common.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

An amateur Irish historian says he is still coming to terms with finding a long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker. Gibbet Hill was published in the Dublin edition of the Daily Express in ...

They were smelly and dangerous and cruel. This book made me grateful we don’t live in the 18th century, a time when drinking water was often tainted. When you could die from an infected cut on ...

He approached Paul Murray, author of From the Shadow of Dracula: The Life of Bram Stoker, who had uncovered lost Stoker stories himself. He “verified that I wasn’t dreaming and this was a ...

The Uruguayan writer, humorist and crossword-setter Mario Levrero (1940–2004) has long been a cult author in the Hispanic world. His dry and moody voice has recently begun to be heard in English, with ...

The former first lady’s eponymous memoir, Melania, is apparently the highest-selling hardcover nonfiction book of the week. Clinching the top spot, she beat out fellow memoirists Lisa Marie ...