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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING The Awakening In 1921 England Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a best-selling author...

I would like to say on his behalf that Colson Whitehead that he is overjoyed to be here, even if he does not show it. “I have a good poker face,” Whitehead wrote in Noble Hustle, his book about gambling and Las Vegas, “because I am half dead inside....

Teen readers have probably already heard buzz about E. Lockhart’s much-anticipated We Were Liars and Danielle Paige’s revisionist take on Frank L. Baum’s Wizard of Oz. But that’s not all. The following fiction and nonfiction titles...

Pedro Ribeiro Simões/flickr Books can be incredibly powerful. They have the ability to suck us in, take us on adventures, and influence the way we think. They can teach us, move us, give us new perspectives, and help shape us. And the most powerful...

IN THE BEGINNING of William Giraldi’s memoir The Hero’s Body, he writes that his “hometown’s name, Manville, lets you know precisely what you’re getting: pure Jersey.” I grew up a town or two over, in Bridgewater, a place I think, admittedly, is like...