In 'Leviticus,' Australian director Adrian Chiarella uses a supernatural presence to evoke the horrors of conversion therapy.

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Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter This year brought more blockbuster ...

To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to ...

You may recognize Tim Blake Nelson from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," but his latest book "Superhero" explores what he considers Hollywood's favorite genre. Trump ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. In recent years, some of the most talked-about literary novels have not given their readers much to talk about ...

Jeffrey is a freelance features writer at Collider. He is an MPA-accredited entertainment journalist and a Tomatometer-approved critic based in the LA area. He graduated from the University of Texas ...

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Don't even think about reading these new books — at least, not unless they shape up real quick and start respecting the venerable genre distinctions of our forebears. The last thing we want to do is ...