Review: Can a man’s questions about his sister’s death lead to ‘A Better Ending’?
Think of “A Better Ending” as a true crime book that becomes a memoir. James Whitfield Thomson’s book is subtitled “A Brother’s Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister’s Death.” It was ...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan Are Full of Surprises in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Trailer
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan are back to take on the undead in the Season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City. Watch it here.
‘Edgar Allan Poe’ Review: The Soul Within the Shadow
Never in doubt of his own abilities, Edgar Allan Poe pursued extremes in literature and in life.
Grateful Dead at 60: three folklore tales that inspired the band’s music
It has now been 60 years since the Grateful Dead formed. The US rock band first played at Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” in La Honda, California, in 1965. There, attendees would consume large doses of LSD ...
Rare 'Book of the Dead' Manuscript from Hatshepsut's Reign Found in Trento
The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of ...
Was his sister’s death really suicide? A sibling confronts his own limited understanding
James Whitfield Thomson revisits his sister's death decades later, grappling with his own problematic views about marriage ...
John Green Is Obsessed With Tuberculosis. His New Book Explains Why.
In a new nonfiction book, the Y.A. novelist describes the disease as a window into “the folly and brilliance and cruelty and ...