This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs and Never Flinch by Stephen King. The King of ...

After the deliriousness of the new millennium wore off, audiences entered the 2000s challenged by, well, everything. When the ...

In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent ...

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of ...

Erno Spiegel was spared because he was a twin. He went on to help others at Auschwitz, as detailed in this documentary by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill.

Banks, the Scottish science fiction writer best known for his Culture series. Banks is an odd choice for a bunch of tech billionaires. The author, who died in 2013, was a socialist and avowed ...