WRITING CREATIVITY AND SOUL. By Sue Monk Kidd. Knopf. 240 pages. $30. Beloved novelist and memoirist Sue Monk Kidd is a native of Georgia who now makes her home in North Carolina — but her literary ...

Over 17 years after the release of their 2008 film The Secret Life of Bees, Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah joined forces once again to present the awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a ...

The cover of “Canticle” depicts a woman in a vibrant red, hooded cloak swirling away from the reader. It hints at what’s inside: a mystical story that immerses us in an earlier century, in the vein of ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. With some estimates placing the number of Hawaiian monk seals left in the wild at just 1 ...

Matthew McConaughey almost took a different path in life. During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday, Dec. 10, the 56-year-old actor shared he once had aspirations of being a monk. "That ...

DALLAS — Many players have become All-Stars throughout the years in the NBA. Some of those players have gone on to enjoy strong careers — although they often fall short of the Hall of Fame. Then, ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

Two new books by fiction writers Elizabeth McCracken and Sue Monk Kidd offer different approaches to the craft of writing. McCracken's "A Long Game" is skeptical of cosmic inspiration, focusing ...

Kristen Wiig revealed what she told herself in the mirror before deciding to pursue a career as an actor. Wiig clarified that she had taken an acting class in college despite her fear of public ...

The brand new mystery-thriller Secret Life of a Good Wife premieres on the Lifetime Movie Network Friday, Nov. 28 at 8/7c. Starring Katy Wilson, Kennedy Martin and Jason Frederick, the newest LMN ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...