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Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, The Buried Giant, was over a decade in the making, but unlike so many anticipated literary releases, it's no sweeping saga of century-spanning conflicts. Nor is it a painstakingly assembled re...

-- drawing by Eliane Gerrits Were you born here?" I ask Michael, the stonemason who repairs the flagstones along my driveway. They are in shambles because of the constant freezing, thawing and refreezing in recent weeks....

Jess & Chris' Beach-Inspired Traditional Home Most of the time, when we talk about habits, we're focused on trying to break bad ones. But habits aren't all bad. Sometimes, turning something fun or useful into a habit can...

There's no doubt that the first season finale of Ellen DeGeneres's reality competition show was bizarre. But the questions it raises are even stranger, along with the weird and frustrating way the network chose to handle...

There’s no doubt that the first season finale of Ellen DeGeneres’s reality competition show was bizarre. But the questions it raises are even stranger, along with the weird and frustrating way the network chose to ha...

When Gérard Araud arrived in Washington last September, he heard one question over and over, usually in the first five minutes of any conversation: "When are you moving back into your residence?"

How much more enjoyable it is to speak of love and marriage than of splitting up, but divorce happens, and it happens to artists at probably the same rate as for everyone else. Marital property -- everything acquired dur...

Beci & Raph's Most Excellent Make & Do Adventure Love to decorate your home but feel like you are on the too-meek side sometimes? Or that you're not quite taking chances like you could? Love to give advice but feel very ...

NEW YORK -- The golden Saddam Hussein statues hadn't arrived, but Wafaa Bilal decided it was time to come up with a price tag. The 2015 edition of the Armory Show fair would open Thursday to the public.

Michael Vaughn's Kingsman:The Secret Service is like The Shining meets Pygmalion. The movie which lies firmly in the tradition of Tarantino's meta cinema features a millenarian mogul, Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackso...

At the finale of Robin Campillo's masterful Eastern Boys, the bourgeois, middle-aged Frenchman, Daniel (Oliver Rabourdin), has overhauled his relationship with the Ukrainian hustler Marek (Kirill Emelyanov) into somethin...

For years, we looked to Will Smith as the world's last A-list movie star -- the only actor who could still power a movie ("Men in Black," "Hitch," "I Am Legend," etc.) to the top of the box office charts based on his nam...

For years, we looked to Will Smith as the world’s last A-list movie star — the only actor who could still power a movie (“Men in Black,” “Hitch,” “I Am Legend,” etc.) to the top of the box office charts b...

The Smithsonian has made it official: Selfie sticks are a no-no. Last month, several Smithsonian affiliates banned the poles used by visitors to take pictures of themselves. The sticks present a safety hazard, officials ...

The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers announced today the winners of its annual "Image of the Year Competition." According to the IAPBP website, a panel of judges selected the winners based a ...

An Australian man who has high-level quadriplegia has learned to approach life with an incredible spirit. Dave Jacka was 19 years old when his motorcycle slammed into a tree more than two decades ago, leaving him paralyz...

Hey, isn't that... Telemundo star Ana Maria Polo, dining out at trendy Del Campo in Chinatown on Monday night?Polo might have flown under the radar with some diners, but those in the know -- including, apparently, half t...

The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival announced its initial slate of films for this year's festivities, including World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections and its Viewpoints titles. As Tribeca noted in its re...

Renovation Diary: Dan's Kitchen Some decor trends are just flashes in the pan and are "out" before you know it. But sometimes a trend comes along that has surprising staying power and the power to overcome cries of ubiqu...

When your dining room chairs have three legs, that makes you different. Such are the woes experienced by the seven-year-old main character in Oscar-nominated short film Me and My Moulton. The protagonist's parents are ar...

Food writer Andrea Weigl was intimidated by the thought of making Asian dumplings. She was surprised to find that dumplings and pot stickers are easy to pull together on a…

left to right - Chicago "Seven over Seven": Dan Rizzo-Orr, Mika Horibuchi, Ellis von Sternberg, Claire Molek, (curator), Valentina Zamfirescu, Kenrick Mcfarlane, Nick Nes Knowlton, Anders Lindseth. (Photo by Jake Lingan)...