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Jane Vandenburgh's memoir is a survival story, a tale of how she overcame a strange and sad childhood to become a strange, complicated and slightly less sad adult.

In a profile last month, The Washington Post described deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina as a “low-profile aide” who begins “fixing President Obama’s problems&rdquo...

Michael Jackson may soon return to the stage, at least for a 'special announcement.'

If you intend to spend a few hours at the Harvard Film Archive's Agnès Varda retrospective (it starts Sunday and is well worth 80 minutes, an evening, or an entire weekend of your life), you'll leave aware of how little of Varda's filmmaking takes place beneath the cover of darkness. She practices her craft in broad daylight. During the 1950s ...

March 3, 2009 · President Barack Obama will host a health care policy summit at the White House this week. An estimated 46 million Americans are uninsured, and that number is likely to climb as...

For some high-profile movie and television projects, the path to audiences leads not just through writers and producers, but lawyers and judges, too. At least that's been the case for Bilbo Baggins, the flawed superheroes of 'Watchmen' and the designs of 'Project Runway' contestants.

Performances begin March 5, 2009 for a limited engagement through March 22, 2009 at the White Plains Performing Arts Center (11 City Place, White Plains), Westchester's professional regional theatre, as part of the theatre's Bank of America Broadway Classics series. opening night is Friday, March 6, 2009.

An unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, the American author who committed suicide in September 2008, has been discovered and is due to be published next year, 14 years after his last novel Infinite Jest. The 200 or so draft pages of The Pale King were found two months after Wallace's death by his wife, Karen Green, when she was sorting out the garage where Wallace worked. The book is set in a tax office in the American midwest and features a cast of bored Internal Revenue Service agents who seek to transcend the tedium of their jobs.An extract from the manuscript has been published in this week's New Yorker, and Michael Pietsch, Wallace's editor at Little, Brown, has said that he has a tentative agreement with Wallace's agent to publish The Pale King in the spring of 2010. Pietsch described the experience of reading the manuscript, along with the accompanying notebooks and drafts, as one of 'joy' rather than pain because of Wallace's 'astounding, levitating, daring' writing. The w

Anna Perera's novel for teenagers about the notorious American detention camp is a gruelling imaginative journey. She tells Michelle Pauli how and why she made itGuantánamo Bay's days may be numbered, with President Obama's pledge to close the detention camp, and prisoners trickling home, but children's writer Anna Perera is determined that teenagers, at least, will understand the full horror of the human rights abuses that took place in the name of the 'war on terror'.Perera is the author of Guantánamo Boy, a novel that pulls no punches in its depiction of the torture, isolation and injustices suffered by prisoners at the notorious camp. The book focuses on Khalid, an ordinary 15-year-old from Rochdale who spends his time playing computer games, hanging out with his mates in the park and wishing he had the guts to tell his Irish classmate Niamh that he fancies her. However, within days of arriving in Karachi on a family visit to relatives, Khalid's life turns into a Kafkaesque nightma

Los Angeles: Season using greener production practices -- Jack Bauer is on a mission to save the planet, or at least reduce its carbon footprint.