Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

We’ve always thought that the apocalypse is nigh, as Tom Phillips writes in his superb book, A Brief History of the End of the F--king World ...

T he Overlook Film Festival returns to "America's most haunted city" from April 3 to 5. A cat on its ninth life, the annual ...

Education: University of Manchester, BA in economics with a focus on international relations; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, MA Adam Taylor writes about international events ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

The Bookseller’s Hotlists are literary agencies’ top manuscripts out on submission with UK and international publishers, ...

RECAP: Police investigate new theory on Hollywood star Gene Hackman's final moments after he and his wife Betsy Arakawa were ...

Following the three characters through fifty years of romance, heartbreak, friendship, and forgiveness, this novel is an ode to love in all its forms. “I promise you it’s the kind of book you won't ...

Is God reactive, or proactive? In other words, is he ahead of the universe and all that unfolds in it? Or is he constantly ...

parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

But not before we all watch this: Adam and Leighton are cast in The Oranges, but he’s dating someone else at the time. As he put it, “We did this movie together. I was seeing someone at the ...