According to Sir Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” And accor

How do you love someone who is hard to love?

In Bowling Alone (Touchstone), Robert D.

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Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.

When Patricia MacLachlan was asked to write a book about her life as an author, she responded with a fictional account of a visiting&n

Olivia Tschetter leaves her doctoral defense to learn that her mother has died.

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Forty years after the birth of the band Led Zeppelin, former lead singer Robert Plant has been reborn as an interpreter of Americana r

So far no one has asked me to join The Academy in voting on who should win the Oscars.

Sigh No More, the latest album from Mumford and Sons, is a rousing chorus of blue

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Not sure you really want to see a western? Maybe you wonder what the quirky Coen brothers would make of the genre?

Author Jeff Manion reflects on the Israelites’ wanderings in the Sinai desert to teach readers lessons on living for God’s

In his jeans and red Reeboks, Jon Troast is relaxed on stage.

All Alone

by Donald W. Berghuis

In his astute critique of e-mail, John Freeman frames the vast changes wrought by the Internet in the context of 4,000 years of histor

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While the Chicken Soup franchise of books never quite satisfied me, this collection of essays serves up something truly rich—the

Montreal-based indie rockers Arcade Fire have a growing North American reputation.