John le Carré revolutionized and defined the spy genre with literary masterworks like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and ...

Danielle Steel is an absolute legend in the romance novel game, and Heartbeat may just be her very best work. In it, a daytime TV producer has a chance encounter with a former TV production assistant ...

Ann Patchett, Nora Roberts, Tia Williams, and more recommend books that get yearning, romance, and heartbreak right.

Avengers: Doomsday is positioned as a Phase Six milestone, and all signs point to Doctor Doom stepping into a role far bigger than a standard villain.

The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of ...

Book criticism often encourages speed: verdicts delivered briskly, ideas reduced to angles, art pressed into service of an argument. The two books under review here resist that pressure.

What does great television look like? And how is it made? Two exhibits in Queens, dedicated to HBO's 'Sopranos,' have the answers ...

Discover the real historical figures behind five of Shakespeare's most famous characters, from Hamlet to Cleopatra.

In his debut novel, Escape!, which came out last week, DC author Stephen Fishbach draws on his experience both behind the scenes as a former television executive and as a two-time contestant on the ...

With the Cosmere coming to Apple TV, Brandon Sanderson promises that he will not make the same big mistake that George R.R. Martin did.

This massive but subtle Easter egg in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms sets up Westeros' bloodiest war in a way that most people didn't notice.

AU Review’s resident bookworms have gathered together some of the reads they’re most excited to get stuck into in the first few months of the year. From rich fantasy and sci-fi reimaginings, to 1960s ...