An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Robert de Niro stars in Netflix political thriller Zero Day, The White Lotus takes us to Thailand, and Bear Grylls hunts down celebs in the Costa Rican jungle ...

Popular books that pack a punch and have hit the mark with readers across the motu in the past year have also found favour ...

Miller is joined by Silvina Sironi of the Word on Fire Institute to discuss the Book of Judith ... to discuss ‘The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca.’ John J. Miller is joined by Sarah Pothecary ...

Our must-read personal finance books for beginners are "Finance for the People" by Paco de Leon, "Get Good With Money" by Tiffany Aliche, "The Simple Path to Wealth" by JL Collins, and "The ...

The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads ... Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is a tour de force of fiction. The Barnes, a once-well-off Irish ...

Laurence Harris and his wife Ruth ... and the synagogue that once could hold 1,000 people was gone. Thousands of books were also lost. Days after the fire, Amy Whitman Richardson brought her ...

Laurence's son Tarquin, from his first marriage, was born on August 21, 1936, and has written a number of books on his family including So Who's Your Mother? and My Father Laurence Olivier.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95. (Jan. 17) Actress ...

The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver from 1961 to his death in 1989, "died peacefully on Jan. 16, 2025 surrounded by her family,” the BBC and Sky News reported ...

FILE - Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... by John Osborne and featuring a tour de force performance from Olivier as a dance ...