Robin Hood dies. A summer laugh-fest, this ain’t. For those who don’t fully recall the 15th-century legend, an English farmer ...

There aren’t many big-name pop music performers who go on to become topnotch producers. Trent Reznor, Dr. Dre, Brian Eno, Dan ...

In my case, that discussion focused on telling an older parent that, based on what’s been happening with him, the rest of his ...

The story takes place in Madrid in 1988, where an 8-year-old girl named Elena lives with her parents and grandmother in a ...

A lot happens in Python’s Kiss, a new collection of stories by Louise Erdrich, only her second since The Red Convertible ...

Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...

There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...

John Banville is a vastly gifted (and almost ridiculously prolific) author. With 23 novels to his credit—not including at least 10 so-called “Quirke” mystery novels—perhaps the most remarkable aspect ...

The Toei-produced, female-driven, action/exploitation films known as “Pinky Violence” reached their crescendo in the late 1970s – and are almost single-handedly responsible for the first wave of ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...

Ornate shops line Krahnstrasse, Osnabrück's main pedestrian path in the Old Town. I can think of three reasons why you ended up in Osnabrück, Germany: 1) Your car ...

In modern society's controversies, few tiles glimmer with as complex a spectrum as those involving sex scandals. We love them and hate them, and we can’t get enough of them. Salacious by nature ...