Haruki Murakami

UNDERRATED 'The Pitch' on AMC: Like a real-life "Mad Men" with far less interesting furnishings, this reality show captures the drama behind today's ad game and transcends the cliches while doing it. Sure, it's a little unsettling to consider the...

"We Need to Talk About Kevin" and "Rampart" are among the films newly available on VOD and DVD and Blu-ray; both movies offer compelling portraits of deeply disturbing behavior....

On the day that a best selling book becomes a blockbuster movie (The Hunger Games)… a cult book from 1987, became a small indie picture. It’s Tokyo in the late ‘60s. Everyone is listening to the Beatles and wanting to overthrow the...

The summer before Megan Walburn's senior year at Washington College she met someone at a cookout who worked at WJZ. Soon there was a writing test. Then a gig freelancing. She has stayed at WJZ (our media partner) for the last five years producing, and...

Gifted designer Chip Kidd, who doesn't take himself too seriously, makes a case for print books....

2011's Bad Sex in Fiction award went to David Guterson's "Ed King," a modern retelling of the Oedpius story....

As 2011 comes to a close, we take a minute to reflect on the year's best in the world of publishing. Here is the list of our favorites, all published this year: FICTION "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain This gorgeous novel portrays the whirlwind...

David Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...

Aleph A Novel Paulo Coelho Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95 A crisis of faith prompts a man to begin a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia. The Angel Esmeralda Nine Stories Don DeLillo Scribner, $24 The first collection of short stories from a...

"Dip ramen," or tsukemen, is the specialty at Ikemen, located at Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, where the staff wear fedoras and ties, it's all jazz all the time, and a framed hunk of katsuobushi (dried, fermented and smoked bonito) hangs on...

The first chapter of Haruki Murakami's novel "1Q84" is online now, even though the book won't be out until late October....

It's tempting, looking at the fall's books, to think of this as a political season. Dick Cheney got it started with "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," and Joe McGinnis pitched in with "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin." (That...