Here is my annual critical ranking of the Super Bowl commercials. This is the pregame edition, with all the available ...

Percival Everett's “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich's “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner's “Creation Lake” and Garth ...

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept Asia, died after ...