entertainment - "book"

After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Mahvish Khan — whose parents are Afghan immigrants — wanted to do something that would help both America and Afghanistan. She became an interpreter for lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and has chronicled the detainees' stories in a new book.

Evan S. Connell, an old American master, and Claire Keegan, a young Irish prodigy, both have new books of short fiction this summer — and both are worth picking up.

Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning composer Charles Strouse will be at Theatre Building Chicago (1225 W. Belmont Ave.) to discuss his new book PUT ON A HAPPY FACE: A BROADWAY MEMOIR with Theatre Building Chicago Artistic Director, John Sparks.

My first reaction to the news that new york Time book review editor and essayist Rachel Donadio is leaving NY to become the Times’s Rome bureau chief was envy, pure and simple.

The actor is bringing the comic book sorcerer to the big screen.

Exclusives: Actor to star, produce Thulsa Doom film -- Djimon Hounsou has partnered with Dynamite Entertainment to star in and produce a bigscreen feature about immortal sorcerer Thulsa Doom, a central figure in the Conan the Barbarian and Kull comicbooks.

This year's Democratic National Convention (DNC) is becoming a haven for Hollywood A-listers: Ben Affleck, Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee have reportedly booked their appearances at the event.

In Jane Mayer's angry and important book 'The Dark Side,' the tenacious New Yorker reporter takes us, step by step, through the process by which practices and methods we associate with tyrannies became official U.S. policy.

Like IAtonementI before it, IBrideshead RevisitedI is one of those astoundingly well-acted literary adaptations that fans of the novel will eat up like Thanksgiving dinner and first timers will likely consider a solid replacement for sleeping pills. This condensed version of Brideshead gives audiences a hyper-dramatic rendition of the book by Evelyn Waugh.

Rights to Kevin Grevioux's horror comicbook.