American history is filled with powerful men who have have honed their competitive strategies around the card table. In Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, author James McManus details how the game's logic is reflected in our history of battles and business.
In his new book, Michael Specter writes about smart people who reject facts.
Philip Glenister relishes playing a fast-talking, chauvinistic boss in the British sci-fi series.
The gritty realism of the film Precious is even more intense in the novel Push, upon which the film is based. Author Sapphire discusses the inspiration for her work — and her initial reluctance to allow her work to become a film.
From her multiple marriages to her diamond collecting, a new biography by William Mann — aptly titled How to Be a Movie Star — details the dramatic life of one of Hollywood's all-time leading ladies. "Elizabeth always loved living large, and it served her very well," he says.
In his wide-ranging, expertly curated anthology Becoming Americans, Ilan Stavans collects four centuries of immigrants' stories.
Ken Auletta's new book, Googled, chronicles the behemoth search engine company from the bottom up. But critic Troy Patterson says that few of the book's points are so penetrating that they couldn't be easily discovered via a quick Google query.
The 1960’s cult TV series “The Prisoner” has been remade and premieres this month on the AMC cable channel. Jim Caviezel stars as No. 6 and Ian McKellen as 2. Meanwhile, the 17-episode original series starring Patrick McGoohan as No. 6 has been re-released on DVD and is airing on the Independent Film Channel.
The City of Cambridge lost an icon this week: master storyteller Brother Blue. For more than a decade, Brother Blue and his wife Ruth produced hundreds of hours of storytelling on Cambridge Community Television.
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
House concerts are a longstanding tradition in Boston. They happen in basements, living rooms and lofts, often sporadically, with varying levels of success. But The Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain has been packing them in every week for nearly three years.
Paranormal disturbances have been reported on the fourth floor of Shelton Hall, a Boston University dormitory. On the eve of Halloween, a ghost story.
As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum works toward completing its new building and expansion project, it’s also “going green” by digging wells far beneath the ground.
Despite a financial setback that put this year’s First Night Boston celebration in jeopardy, the festivities will go on as planned.
The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time.
The inaugural Boston Book Festival is bringing authors from around the country to Copley Square this weekend. It’s a celebration of all things books, and we thought we’d examine books and stories that use Boston as a place setting.
Dozens of internationally recognized writers such as Richard Russo and Cornel West are visiting Boston this weekend to take part in the workshops, panel discussions, performances, and readings at the inaugural Boston Book Festival, which opens Saturday in Copley Square.
As a writer, George V. Higgins had a leg-breaker’s ability to grab you hard and pull you into an alley — a Boston alley, because none of his 26 novels transpired more than an hour or two outside the city. He was all business, his writing was lean, he knew the place and he knew [...]
The return to the podium of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine has been delayed about a week.
Boston’s Chinatown hasn’t had its own public library branch since the 1950s. Now a group of artists is changing that by transforming a vacant, street-level commercial space into a temporary “Storefront Library.” For the next three months the Chinatown community can go there to borrow books, study, do research and re-connect.
Herta Mueller, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.
Boston pianist Bruce Brubaker manipulates pianos in a rare way. Small weights on the keys produce an ethereal reverb that you can’t get from food pedals. The effect is subtle, for a lifelong pianist such as Brubaker, it’s delicious.
