Ruth Rendell's latest is haunting, taut
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"The Water's Lovely" (Crown, 352 pages, $25.95), by Ruth Rendell: Ruth Rendell's latest novel is like a perfect episode of NBC's "Law and Order." It's a self-contained tale of suspense about life in the modern world with enough twists, turns and uncertainties to remain interesting throughout. It's got realistic, engaging and likable characters to whom bad things often happen.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Imelda Staunton strengthens the immensely moving, stark and engaging film.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russiaâs architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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Ann Packer follows up her best seller with a second novel of moral complexity.
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This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.
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Readers who long for instant clarity will be frustrated, but this smart, audacious work becomes as gripping as a good thriller.
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Madeleine LâEngle was an author work transcended both genre and generation, most memorably in her childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time.â
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Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, is very much in line with the other fiction for which she is known so well. This story, like many of her others, deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. The moral seriousness is evident from the start, but the novel also is a very good story.
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John Patrick Shanley's play, which involves a clash of wills and generations between a nun and a priest, is tight, absorbing and expertly acted.
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A dark fairy tale from Russia, âThe Italianâ pulls you into a richly atmospheric, persuasively inhabited world teeming with foundlings and pathos.
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Somehowâtalent, maybe?âMartin Cruz Smith has found a way to make his Arkady Renko series always live up to the promise of 'Gorky Park.'
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Like any number of Chinese films that make the festival rounds, âDam Streetâ offers a portrait of alienation in a post-Mao world as believable as it is grim, grim, grim.
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Dito Montiel's autobiographical tale is so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it.
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Russell Banksâs new novel bears less resemblance to any of his gritty, visionary epics than it does to a melodramatic B movie from the 1940s.