Dialogues of the Dead By Reginald Hill (Harper, 481 pages, $16.99) Good Morning, Midnight By Reginald Hill (Harper, 465 pages,…

In his iconic first novel, The Time Machine, H. G. Wells sends his Victorian protagonist 800,805 years into the future…

Consider the clarinet. What an oddball musical instrument! It is not the mighty piano, whose range is from the most…

It’s Reformation time again, and you know what that means. Big crowds will fill the pews of Protestant churches on…

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In today’s era of raw nerves, just about anything is capable of setting someone off — from jokes once considered…

Only a director mad as Ahab would try to make a Moby Dick movie — so John Huston had all the…

Dwight Yoakam had me in tears Sunday night. I was watching the new Ken Burns PBS documentary series about the…

Jack Falstaff has the run of Capitol Hill — at least for the next few months. The Folger Shakespeare Theatre…

As August draws to a close, we approach what I call the end of the “sentimental summer” — the period…