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SAN DIEGO — Willie Nelson was a young whippersnapper of 28 when he wrote "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961. He was 82 when he co-wrote and recorded "Still Not Dead" in 2017. On May 28, he will release "The Border," his...Read more

Q. It was cool to learn what TEAC stands for. Thanks, I never knew that! I saw that the TEAC PD-301-X CD Player/FM Tuner just has FM radio? No AM radio on the unit?

—J.L., Minneapolis

A. That is correct, no AM radio,...Read more

By all accounts, Jon Bon Jovi has led a charmed life with supportive parents, early success and a fantastic head of hair. That's an enviable history, but it makes for a fairly tedious documentary.

Despite the lack of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Designing Women” alum Delta Burke says her “ugly” experience on the hit CBS sitcom drove her away from Los Angeles, and her long-time struggle with her weight led her to use crystal meth to keep ...Read more

"Divide and conquer" is a maxim that has proven effective in myriad scenarios—negotiations and computer programming, for example. But, more insidiously, it has also been used to cement social hierarchies.

Wealthy ...Read more

In an ideal world, at-home health care services would be equal no matter where a patient lives—after all, these services transfer care into the comfort of one's own home. But the reality is far from balanced.

The ...Read more

If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the late 1950s, Charles "Chuck" Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who'd gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich ...Read more

NEW YORK — Just before the end of playwright David Adjmi’s masterful “Stereophonic,” a three-hour dissection of ego, insecurity and the messy, messed-up gorgeousness of the creative process, I decided I’d had ...Read more

NEW YORK — Back in the 1980s, Huey Lewis and the News were sometimes compared to the Cars and even Elvis Costello, but their string of catchy hit singles also had the distinctive everyman air of flowing out of a bunch of...Read more

Early on in Neel Mukherjee's new novel, Ayush, an editorial director at a London publishing house, sits in an acquisitions meeting and tells his colleagues about the book he is championing. He compares it to David Mitchell...Read more

The past isn't even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner. In that spirit, a cadre of contemporary scholars and writers have recast, with heroic urgency, the history of North American peoples prior to European encounter and...Read more

As depicted by the creative solutions and struggles of the staff of the TV show "Abbott Elementary" each week, the entire country is now aware that Philadelphia’s public schools are underfunded.

But many don’t know ...Read more

For the past two months, author Amy Jane Cohen has been lecturing about Philadelphia’s Black history to predominately white audiences at libraries, bookstores, and exclusive private clubs in the city and the burbs.

“...Read more

David Gibbins' "A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks" is also a history of the world in 270 pages, which is why, as you might imagine, the book is jam-packed with information — and why, as Gibbins explains, it is ...Read more

"Dogland" is exactly the kind of book I doggedly seek.

It doesn't even matter what the book is about; I always have an appetite for nonfiction that is smart, funny and has an attitude toward its subject that suggests both...Read more

We never get romantic comedies in movie theaters anymore, but at least there's a place we can find plenty of 'em: libraries and book stores.

Emily Henry's "Funny Story" checks both the "romantic" and "comedy" boxes with ...Read more

What is it about the Midwest that breeds so many serial killers?

What is in the soil that grows the sort of grisly murderers who launch a million headlines? Adam Rapp has wondered for a long time. He was born in Chicago ...Read more