Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.
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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.
Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Is it proper to say “different from” or “different than”?
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
This book may not be one you’d nat
Fans of Over the Rhine will agree that The Long Sur
Rabbit Hole is challenging, not only because of the subject—Osca
Not sure you really want to see a western? Maybe you wonder what the quirky Coen brothers would make of the genre?
The Land Between by by Jeff Manion
Finding God in Difficult TransitionsAuthor 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
The Tyranny of E-Mail by by John Freeman
The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your InboxIn 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
The Weepies consist of a husband-and-wife team who write bouncy tunes and lyrics that catch y
Want to read about the largest molecule ever found in space? What's up with the decline of the honeybee population?
The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God by edited by Leslie Leyland Fields
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.
This historical drama, which follows England’s King George VI (Colin Firth) and his struggle with a speech impediment, is genial
In this fictional picture book based on the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Junior is trapped beneath rubble.
Movies love to celebrate forgiveness—that's why so many end in the glow of reconciliation. Get Low is different.
Gudenkauf's first novel narrates child abduction in cold, chiseled strokes.
Yarhouse is weakest when trying to summarize a definitive "Scriptural" position on homosexuality, quickly drawing conclusion