Charlotte Bronte

On the surface of her first new novel in a decade, the vaguely autobiographical, startlingly ambitious "See Now Then," author Jamaica Kincaid seems to tell a simple story about a New England family that is falling apart. Mr. Sweet, a musician and...

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: SUPERCILIOUS The handy British expression...

-------------------- Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm A New English Version Philip Pullman Viking: 400 pp, $27.95 -------------------- Freudian, Marxist, feminist — fairy tales have famously been put through any number of academic paces,...

*** (out of four) Writer-director Andrea Arnold’s last film, 2010’s “Fish Tank,” starred Michael Fassbender in one of many fantastic performances that all but guaranteed he'd be a huge star. One year later, Fassbender held his own...

Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem Renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville....

MONEYBALL [1/10] (2011) * * *1/2 (A-) Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Pratt, Kathryn Morris, Robin Wright, Stephen Bishop, Reed Thompson Sony//Rated PG-13//Drama//133 minutes Available on: DVD and...

The screenwriters of "A Dangerous Method," "The Descendants," "Jane Eyre," "Moneyball" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" -- as well as the authors of the works each is based on -- are the five finalists for the 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award....

A classic story comes to life anew as Mia Wasikowska ("Alice in Wonderland") takes the title role in Charlotte Bronte's saga. Orphaned when she was young, Jane becomes a governess in the household of the secretive Rochester (Michael Fassbender, "X-Men:...

Mia Wasikowska plays Jane Eyre....

Moviegoers had their pick of two good-looking leading men at the box office this weekend, but they made their choice clear: Bradley Cooper. His film "Limitless" beat out Matthew McConaughey's "The Lincoln Lawyer," grossing a solid $19 million in ticket......

A solitary figure runs clad in gray stumbles and weeps across a rainswept moor. Yes, it's “Jane Eyre” time again. One of the most frequently adapted period pieces from the golden age of the corset is back, with Mia “Alice in Wonderland&#...

If anyone out there is suffering withdrawal symptoms after a month without a daily fix of Larry King's voice and visage on the tube, relief is on the way -- not just for you, but for the financially beleaguered FCLO......