In 'Mayhem,' Office Workers Try To Get Ahead In Business Without Really Dying
A virus causes a law firm to descend into bloodsport in this B-movie splatterfest starring The Walking Dead's Steven Yuen.
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A Young Woman Gains Independence — And More — In 'Thelma'
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mercurial tale of a college student who develops frightening abilities once she leaves her strict family descends into standard scary-movie tropes.
A Rare Find: Trailblazing Female Designer's Unpublished Family Cookbook
Magazine art director Cipe Pineles helped pave the way for creative women in publishing. She also illustrated her mother's Eastern European recipes, but for 70 years the manuscript lay undiscovered.
For November, A Romance Trio For 'Hamilton' Fans (And The Rest Of You, Too)
Even if you haven't seen the musical, you can keep warm this November with a delightful trio of novellas set in and around the battalion commanded by Alexander Hamilton at the siege of Yorktown.
'Three Billboards' Is a Vigilante-Revenge Thriller That Goes Off The Rails
Frances McDormand is a woman seeking justice for her murdered daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. David Edelstein calls the film "fascinating, then perplexing, then annoying."
Once An Underground Currency, Bitcoin Emerges As 'A New Way To Track Information'
The digital currency's value has gone from zero to $120 billion in nine years. Digital Gold author Nathaniel Popper says major banks are looking into the possibilities of its decentralized network.
'This Mortal Coil' Will Get You All Twisted Up
Emily Suvada's debut novel — a high-tech young adult dystopia — is bursting with ideas (and exploding viruses). And while it might seem like a conventional thriller, it's got a twist to reckon with.
The Grasshopper In The Van Gogh
When museum conservators examined Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees, they found something curious stuck in its paint: a grasshopper. Could it be just some weird leftover — or a crucial clue?
'A Taste Of Paris': How The City Of Light Became The City Of Food
In his new book, food historian David Downie takes readers on a gourmet jaunt through time to reveal how the French capital became a gastronomic powerhouse. (Hint: You can thank Rome.)
Biographer Sought To Write The Kind Of Book Lou Reed 'Deserved'
"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.