entertainment - "book"

Spider-Man Batman forever.The Dark Knight chased Spider-Man 3 from the record books with a $155.3 opening weekend gross, per Exhibitor Relations Co. estimates today.The...

Spider-Man Batman forever.The Dark Knight chased Spider-Man 3 from the record books with a $155.3 opening weekend gross, per Exhibitor Relations Co. estimates today.The...

Three years after the events of THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS, the four young women are back. Despite the distance that divides them as they depart for college, the friends from Ann Brashares's teen book series still stay connected. This sequel returns Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Alexis Bledel to the roles they originated.

What a weekend this has been. The successor of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, took to the screens of a Gotham near you, and Heath Ledger's final flick ran roughshod over box office records, earning a never seen before $155.3 million over three days. Records fell like rain: biggest single day gross, largest amount of venues, biggest film for the month of July, biggest comic book adaptation, and the granddaddy of them all, biggest three-day opening.

In this highly readable book aimed at adults, children's book historian Leonard S. Marcus details the rise (and, often, the fall) of major U.S. children's book publishers.

Readers can receive a free audio excerpt of Thomas L. Friedman's expected fall blockbuster, 'Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.'

'No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually,' the legendary photographer once said. A new book documents hundreds of the Depression-era images she took and the descriptions she wrote of them.

Chance took Christina Thompson from Boston to a remote part of New Zealand's North Island.It was the 1980s, she was on her way back to graduate school in Australia after spending Christmas holidays with her family, and she had a week to spend before school resumed. At the end of that week, in the small village of Kerikeri, "I was booked on the late bus back to Auckland and, looking for a way to spend my last few hours, I wandered over to the pub."

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary) steps into the role of Bruce Wayne's ex Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, the second Batman movie from writer/director Christopher Nolan. Rachel was also a central...