Arts & Culture

More than four centuries have passed since William Shakespeare wrote the mother of all love stories, “Romeo and Juliet.” Since then, there have been countless variations on his tale of teenage star-crossed lovers.

In the long history of the church, perhaps no partnership has been more consequential than that between St. Paul the Apostle and his disciple, St. Luke.

ust when you thought it was safe to take a peaceful stroll through downtown, Godzilla’s mechanical distant cousins return with a vengeance in “Pacific Rim Uprising” (Universal), a noisy, violent, and utterly ridiculous sci-fi adventure.

The “trapped in a mental asylum” suspense genre hasn’t been trotted out much in recent years. “Unsane” (Bleecker Street) shows us why.

BALTIMORE (CNS) — By now, the college basketball world knows that UMBC stands for the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The Retrievers’ historic appearance in the […]

“Francis: The People’s Pope” (Seven Stories Press), a graphic biography by journalist and cartoonist Ted Rall, is, in its way, a celebration of the current successor of St. Peter.

The collection, “Beloved: Children of the Holocaust,” features Mary Burkett’s sketch portraits of 25 other children killed in the Holocaust, as well as one of Janusz Korczak, a Polish pediatrician who ran an orphanage for Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto and was eventually killed at the Treblinka concentration camp.

The U.S. government, which once made guarding the well-being of children a top priority, has now abandoned their interests in favor of the sexual wishes of their parents, according to a new book by law professor Helen M. Alvare.