By Elisabeth Vincentelli In this month’s sci-fi picks, life on Mars, a social dystopia set in near-future London and a meet-cute after a...

By Grayson Haver Currin On a rainy April day in Chicago, Mavis Staples sat in the restaurant of the towering downtown Chicago building...

By Bill Morris Robert Towne, whose screenplay for Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” won an Oscar, and whose work on that and other important...

By Michael Paulson Brooke Shields has a new office. It’s empty, and she hasn’t figured out how she wants to furnish it, or even how often...

By Jack Nicas Sao Paulo’s main avenue was packed in June with thousands of people draped in the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag...

By Javier C. Hernández On the night of June 29, 1974, after a performance with a touring Bolshoi Ballet troupe in downtown Toronto,...