With an assist from MJ Lenderman, the New Orleans singer and poet fine-tunes his storytelling instincts against a backdrop of bracing heartland rock. And yet, the most exciting part of Dollbaum’s ...

It’s always a drag when a game you are looking forward disappoints, but it’s even sadder when it shows you exactly how it didn’t have to at the same time. Plenty of games miss the mark in some way, ...

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In “An Inconvenient Widow,” Lois Romano defends the most reviled first lady from her detractors past and present. By Amy S. Greenberg Amy S. Greenberg is the George Winfree professor of history at ...

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The inspiring and idiosyncratic debut from a 53-year-old priest in Greece pinballs between drone metal and techno Christmas carols, field recordings and hymns. Paradise Metal—the debut of Father ...

The periodic table supposedly came to Dmitri Mendeleev in a dream. Freed from the limits of the conscious world during a nap in early 1869, the Russian chemist entered a fantastical space where the ...

“Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition?” asked Andrea Wulf in The New York Times. The answer, after reading Craig Fehrman’s new page-turner, is “an emphatic yes.” One ...

Séamas O’Reilly’s new novel is a boisterous sendup of “prestige” media and its distortion of Northern Ireland’s complex past. By Colin Barrett Colin Barrett is the author of the story collections ...

Just days before the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale staged this year’s Carlotta Festival — full productions of new plays by the graduate program’’s playwriting students — it opened the last ...

Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...