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Notorious French Writer Faces Consequences for Pedophilia

Gabriel Matzneff faces investigation for decades of awful behavior

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With anyone else at the helm, "Little Women" would have been an entirely different movie

The Bizarre Scheme That Changed the Burial of Charles Dickens

Dickens never got the quiet, unassuming burial he painstakingly pretended to want

Alexis Coe Found a New Way to Write a George Washington Biography

But that doesn't mean the historian held anything back in her new biography on the first president

The Secret History of the Film "Chinatown"

Screenwriter Robert Towne balanced the real and the imagined

The 6 New Books You Should Be Reading This February

A baseball novel, a new kind of George Washington biography, 1970s cinema and more

Professional Hockey and Romance Novels Collide at Seattle’s NHL Franchise

On the surprisingly contentious debate over "Seattle Sockeyes"

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for February

Including the two most batshit crazy films of the year

Agatha Christie's Disappearance Continues to Fascinate Readers

The author went missing for several days in 1926

“American Dirt” Publisher Cancels Remainder of Book Tour After Backlash

Critics have leveled threats against author and booksellers alike

The Most Important Comedy Writer of the Last 50 Years Finally Gets Her Due

There would be no David Letterman without Merrill Markoe

Procrastination Led J.R.R. Tolkien to Write "The Lord of the Rings"

He was supposed to write about Chaucer. Instead he wrote about the Shire.

Why Millennials Refuse to Let Go of Physical Media

The last generation to know life before the internet hasn't fully switched over to streaming