Ian Leslie's "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs," takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John's death. Had McCartney not decided at age 15 to go hear Lennon's band playing in a London suburb, the ...
Not long ago Yvonne Strahovski, who plays beautiful, ruthless, deeply complicated Serena on "The Handmaid's Tale," was forced to watch early scenes of her character's cruelty. Of course, Serena was being cruel to long-suffering heroine June (Elisabeth Moss). It wasn't a nice experience to ...
Health care giant Johnson & Johnson is one of the most well-known and respected brands, and its response to the 1982 tampering of Tylenol bottles that killed seven people is held up in business schools as a model. But in "No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson," veteran ...
When Lytton Strachey set out to write "Eminent Victorians" in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his new book "Eminent Jews," David Denby pays tribute to that iconic work by choosing a ...
On Bon Iver's "SABLE, fABLE," Justin Vernon sings about his fear of change. And then he strives to embrace it. The album is the first in six years from Vernon's project, an epilogue to the reluctant pop star's three-song EP "SABLE," released last fall. Those minimalist, dark tunes open the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Manchin has a memoir coming out in September, what the self-styled maverick from West Virginia calls his "declaration of independence from the extremes on both sides." St. Martin's Press announced Tuesday that Manchin's "Dead Center: In Defense of Common ...
