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Book review: A brilliant glimpse of every lightsaber that matters

By David Betancourt
Oct 24, 2020 7:28 AM - The new book "Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection" is a visual-heavy testament to the importance of lightsabers in the Star Wars universe, offering readers a chance to get to know the history of each unique weapon.
Rocker Lenny Kravitz looks back to when he found his voice

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 21, 2020 6:00 AM - Lenny Kravitz is a man of extremes -- as he readily admits. "I am deeply two-sided: black and white, Jewish and Christian, Manhattan and Brooklynite," he writes about his first 25 years alive in his new memoir, "Let Love Rule," released recently and named after his 1989 debut album.
Review: Cary Grant bio a perceptive look at captivating star

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Oct 20, 2020 9:51 AM - Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming Hollywood legend Cary Grant
Book review: Charting Kendrick Lamar's evolution from platinum-selling rapper to protest artist

By Allison Stewart
Oct 20, 2020 6:00 AM - Part career retrospective, part cultural history, Marcus J. Moore's "The Butterfly Effect" is most interested in Kendrick Lamar's role as what a journalist once described as "an evangelist for Black power."
Book review: A poignant, and fab, mosaic of the Beatles

By Charles Arrowsmith
Oct 19, 2020 6:00 AM - Craig Brown's book, "150 Glimpses of the Beatles," is an idiosyncratic cocktail of oral history, personal memoir, tourism and biography.
Book review: A moving portrait of John McCain, in all his contradictions

By Geoffrey Kabaservice
Oct 18, 2020 7:29 AM - There was no one like John McCain. But readers may come away from Mark Salter's outstanding and frequently moving biography of the late Republican senator wondering if the absence of anyone remotely like McCain from our current politics says more about him or us.
Gregory Maguire says his latest book 'is like comfort food'

By Alicia Rancilio
Oct 17, 2020 7:28 AM - Gregory Maguire attributes the first grain of the idea for his new book, "A Wild Winter Swan," to "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers.
Book review: New thriller 'Goodnight Beautiful' tweaks the 'unreliable female narrator'

By Julia Rubin
Oct 15, 2020 6:00 AM - The couple at the center of "Goodnight Beautiful," Sam Statler and Annie Potter, are newlyweds who have moved from the city to Sam's small hometown in upstate New York. He's a psychologist who sets up a swank practice in an isolated old mansion, and she's a gender-studies professor. On page one, we learn that Sam has gone missing. Annie starts to uncover his secrets.
Book review: Ian Rankin's 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries

By Jonathan Elderfield
Oct 13, 2020 7:07 AM - Ian Rankin's best-known character, John Rebus, typically resides in the dark world of the human soul, and things are no different in "A Song for the Dark Times," Rankin's newest Inspector Rebus novel. However, Rebus is an inspector no more, but that doesn't stop the retiree from heading to the Scotland Highlands to investigate a murder and a missing person case.
Review: 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries

By JONATHAN ELDERFIELD
Oct 12, 2020 9:29 AM - Ian Rankin's best-known character, John Rebus, typically resides in the dark world of the human soul and things are no different in 'œA Song for the Dark Times,' Rankin's newest Inspector Rebus novel

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