(The Associated Press) Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes are reuniting for a trans-Atlantic production of "Richard III," producers announced Thursday.Spacey will play the villainous English king in a production of Shakespeare's play directed by Mendes, which is set for an international tour in 2012.Read more:
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(By Summer Moore, Associated Press) After more than 60 years, over 50 books and a Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel is still struggling with what it means to be a Holocaust survivor.In his new novel, "The Sonderberg Case," Yedidyah is the child of survivors. He is a would-be actor turned theater critic, assigned by his New York newspaper editors to help cover the murder trial of a young German accused of killing his uncle. On the first day of the trial, Yedidyah hears Werner Sonderberg declare himself both guilty and innocent.Read more:
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(By Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) Jonathan Franzen's galvanic new novel, "Freedom," showcases his impressive literary toolkit - every essential storytelling skill, plus plenty of bells and whistles - and his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on American middle-class life. With this book, he's not only created an unforgettable family, he's also completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country, into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters.Whereas Franzen's first novel, "The Twenty-Seventh City," borrowed liberally from the likes of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo to create a dark, splashy picture of a futuristic St. Louis, his 2001 best-seller, "The Corrections," signaled his determination to write an American sort of "Buddenbrooks," to conjure contemporary America - not by going for a cartoonish, zeitgeist-y epic but by deconstructing a family's history to give us a wide-angled portrait of the country as it rumbled into the materialistic 1990s.Read more:
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Dear Amy: Is my 68-year-old mother's refusal to cook (even already prepared food) for herself and my father a possible sign of depression?(My mother won't allow my father in the kitchen to do the cooking either.)Read more:
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How magical it can be in chess when the curtain is raised and we engage in a move-by-move post-game analysis.The sometimes bitter circumstance of sporting conflict - individual will pitted against individual will - becomes a shared, and even a collective, experience when moves made by other players in similar positions also become part of the discussion.Read more:
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(By Michael Weinstein, Features editor) For National Stop on Red Week a few weeks ago we asked: What does a yellow light signify?You replied with matter-of-fact answers, some creativity and some humor.Read more:
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