'Silence' is an enjoyable summer read
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Thomas Perry: When Jack Till showed Wendy Harper how to disappear six years ago, he taught her too well. Now he's got to find her again, and it won't be easy. He just hopes he can track her down before it's too late.
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Amber Frey's new book, while shedding little new light on the case against convicted double murderer Scott Peterson, offers a deeper look at a single mother desperate for love and how she was charmed by a smooth-talker.
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"Pegasus Descending" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 356 pages, $26) &#151; James Lee Burke
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Among other things, âHouse of Happy Endingsâ evokes the sunny simplicity of small-town postwar America, and a bright young girlâs exploration of her small world.
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For those who love New England's mild summer weather, scientists have some advice: enjoy it while you can.
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John Cameron Mitchell's ode to the joy and sweet release of sex also manages to be a sincere, modest political venture that finds humor where you might least expect it.
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If the summer bar scene in Manhattan seems too much of the same old, same old, an antidote might be this diverting musical confection by Jim Wann and Patricia Miller.
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It's an interesting read, but not a revelatory one.
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The phrase &quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s a Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; doesn&#39;t exactly roll off the tongue, does it? It&#39;s a bit awkward and uneven -- but at the same time, it taps our curiosity by hinting at a compelling mystery.
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Despite the presence of not one but two Oprah Winfrey selections in bookstores, it is a sleeper hit from last year that has muscled its way to being a big paperback read this summer.
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Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, is very much in line with the other fiction for which she is known so well. This story, like many of her others, deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. The moral seriousness is evident from the start, but the novel also is a very good story.
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At its best escapist summer reading isnât really a matter of geography. It takes you anywhere it wants to go.
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The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford StageÂs gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee WilliamsÂs ÂSummer and Smoke.Â
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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Summer films rely on creative campaigns. Here's the best of the season so far
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Plot isnât everything, but it is something, and in this thin drama its absence or at least its small contribution, is noticed.
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The jingling piano, the humming traffic and the prancing horse tap out separate if connecting songs in the beguiling nonnarrative film âThe Silence Before Bach.â