Mel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’
Mel Brooks has been responsible for so much in the American comedic canon, for so long, it sometimes seems he is, if not 2,000...
‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm
Toward the end of “Looking for the Good War,” Elizabeth D. Samet’s discerning new book about the gauzy mythology that has shrouded the historical...
8 New Books Coming in December
‘The Ballerinas,’ by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (St. Martin’s, Dec. 7)In this debut thriller, three dancers try to conceal their secrets at the Paris Opera Ballet....
‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack
The bear tore off part of Martin’s jaw and two of her teeth; Russian doctors installed a metal plate in her face, which French...
Book Review: ‘Tinderbox,’ by James Andrew Miller
There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in “Tinderbox,” James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO, to fill an Elizabethan drama....