entertainment - "book"

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez commanded ground troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004; it was on his watch that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal took place. Subsequently, Sanchez has vocally criticized the conduct of the Iraq war — especially the Bush administration's 'catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan.' His new book is Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story.

Decades after the death of Django Reinhardt, his music is flourishing and evolving in Roma musical communities all around the world. Hear an interview with Michael Dregni, author of a new book on Gypsy swing.

INCHEON airport in Seoul is huge, modern, slick and a shade over 10 hours' flying from Nadi in Fiji, where I boarded a Korean Air flight at 10am last Friday.

In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review.

Does this presidential race offer fun for the whole family, or what? Racial conflict? Check. Gender politics? Check.

OMAHA, Neb., May 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Wondrous and enchanting yet fragile and at risk, 'The Natural World' (ISBN: 978-189031042-4), as seen through the eyes of celebrated nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen, chronicles ten distinct ecosystems that serve as islands of refuge not only for Earth's diversity of life but for the human spirit as well.

Film News: Kevin Munroe directing 'Dylan Dog' adaptation -- Brandon Routh is returning to the world of comicbook heroes. The 'Superman Returns' star will topline 'Dead of Night,' based on the bestselling Italian comicbook series 'Dylan Dog,' for Hyde Park and Platinum Studios.

Film Festivals: Universal action films join 'Anvil' in '08 lineup -- Two Universal films based on graphic novels will bookend Film Independent's 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival.

Timothy J. Colton's biography of Boris N. Yeltsin argues that the Russian president was a great democratizer, 'in the company of Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel.'

Have you ever thought of children's books as Mother's Day gifts? It can be hard to find the perfect Mother?s Day gift for a beloved mother or grandmother. ...