This nutrition advice has reached its expiration date
Debunking a bunch of diet fads that won't seem to die -- despite years of research proving them wrong.
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“My Absolute Darling”: A brutal novel about a tough teen girl
The horrors recounted in Gabriel Tallent's grim and fascinating first novel, "My Absolute Darling," intensify when a caring teacher suggests therapy.
Emotional healing and a search for true love in “George & Lizzie”
Librarian Nancy Pearl knows lust. "Book Lust" followed by "More Book Lust" and "Book Lust to Go" have fanned the flames of a red-hot passion for reading everywhere. And now...
At 85, John le Carr茅 emerges with a sequel to “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”
The spymaster's first George Smiley novel in decades adds new layers to his 1963 tale.
Actor Bruce Campbell offers an engaging master class in schlock 聽
In "Hail to the Chin," the lantern-jawed star delivers "further confessions of a B movie actor."
Will Civil War re-enactments die out?
Civil War re-enactments are as old as the war itself. The first re-enactments are recorded as far back as 1861.
Trend check: Where bone broth stands now
At the Saturday farmers market in the college town of Bellingham, Wash., customers are lining up for the latest innovation at chef Gabriel Claycamp's bone broth cart. Equipped with an...
Why you tip as much as you do
The standard view in the field of economics is that tipping in any service encounter where you don't expect to be a return customer is a behavioral quirk -- something...
Eggplant and tomato: It’s the pasta sauce of summer
Southern Italy is deeply fond of eggplant. Throughout the country -- but particularly within the regions around and south of Rome -- it is fried, stuffed, layered and baked, smoked...
“The Trip to Spain” stirs aging anxiety into this improv-comedy feast
Fine restaurants provide the backdrop for philosophical musings, playful one-upmanship and more than a few celebrity impressions in "The Trip to Spain," the third installment of Michael Winterbottom's dryly comedic...