You have your mother’s eyes,” a dying Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) tells Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in 2011’s Harry ...

Severus Snape is ... canon beyond the seven books. With both the original series and this supplemental information in mind, here are 13 little-known facts about Snape. His first and last names ...

The Harry Potter film franchise is one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed in the world, but producers had a very ...

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Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human. By Donna Barba Higuera Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy ...

In his latest book, Cass R. Sunstein lays out what the U.S. owes to the rest of the world. Ada Calhoun’s debut novel about a middle-aged wife and mother offers a wry critique of the sexual ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.