“The Lies I Tell” by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark) NEW YORK (AP) — Clear your schedule to read “The Lies I Tell” because this book is nearly impossible to put down from the first page. It begins from the perspective of Kat Roberts, an unsatisfied journalist, who has waited 10 years to expose the many grifts of Meg Williams, a con artist who she blames for altering the course of her own life when she was on an uphill trajectory.
NEW YORK — After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending panicked swimmers to the shore and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes on what may be his last film score.
A while back, Susan Jackson was looking through some family mementos when she found a letter she wrote to herself when she was 9 years old. The former Independence School District art teacher, who is now a fulltime artist who works under the banner The Heart and Hand Company, read the letter and began to smile.
Disney has made big business mining content from content, with spinoffs and sequels and multiverses dancing through multiplexes and streaming apps. “Lightyear,” the latest Disney/Pixar animated film, has been extracted from the much-beloved “Toy Story” universe, but it’s a bit unique.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — No one can accuse Carrie Underwood of underdressing — or underdelivering — when the country superstar puts out her latest record “Denim & Rhinestones” during the same weekend of CMA Fest and giving tens of thousands of fans a stadium-sized performance.
“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus; Doubleday (400 pages, $29) Beautiful, unconventional intellectual Elizabeth Zott and lonely, athletic genius Calvin Evans have survived childhood trauma and loneliness and found happiness. The talented young midcentury scientists have “actual chemistry” — and the toxic envy of their colleagues at the Hastings Research Institute in Commons, California.
A new Adam Sandler film arrived on Netflix this week -- no surprise given his long-standing contract with the streamer -- but while most of Sandler’s Netflix output has been lowbrow comedy, his newest film, “Hustle” is a far cry from that.
The 35th Annual Sugar Creek Slavic Fest, celebrating the Kansas City area’s rich Slavic heritage, is coming up this weekend. The festival is from 5 to 11 p.m.
In Chloe Okuno’s stylish debut “Watcher,” the title refers not just to one person, but two, when the watched becomes the watcher, the stalker and stalked swapping places throughout the course of this chilly psychological thriller.
One of the most viral moments from the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend with the presentation of the Palme d’Or to Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” wasn’t a slip on the red carpet or those fighter jets that flew over Tom Cruise’s head. It was the director James Gray making a thoughtful argument for how mainstream moviemaking can be more than superheroes.